WTC7 seems to be a classic controlled demolition. WTC 1 &2 destruction appears to have been enhanced by thermate (a variation of thermite) in addition.
Pentagon was not struck by a passenger aircraft. It was a drone or missle.

Ariz., Aug. 18 - Spent shells litter the ground at what is left othe firing range, and camouflage outfits still hang in a storeroom. Just a few months ago, this ranch was known as Camp Thunderbird, the headquarters of a paramilitary group that promised to use force to keep illegal immigrants from sneaking across the border with Mexico.

Now, in a turnabout, the 70-acre property about two miles from the border is being given to two immigrants whom the group caught trying to enter the United States illegally.

The land transfer is being made to satisfy judgments in a lawsuit in which the immigrants had said that Casey Nethercott, the owner of the ranch and a former leader of the vigilante group Ranch Rescue, had harmed them.

"Certainly it's poetic justice that these undocumented workers own this land," said Morris S. Dees Jr., co-founder and chief trial counsel of the Southern Poverty Law Center in Montgomery, Ala., which represented the immigrants in their lawsuit.

Mr. Dees said the loss of the ranch would "send a pretty important message to those who come to the border to use violence." The surrender of the ranch comes as the governors of Arizona and New Mexico have declared a state of emergency because of the influx of illegal immigrants and related crime along the border.

Bill Dore, a Douglas resident briefly affiliated with Ranch Rescue who is still active in the border-patrolling Minuteman Project, called the land transfer "ridiculous."

"The illegals are coming over here," Mr. Dore said. "They are getting the American property. Hell, I'd come over, too. Get some American property, make some money from the gringos."

The immigrants getting the ranch, Edwin Alfredo Manca Gonzles and Fatima del Socorro Leiva Medina, could not be reached for comment. Kelley Bruner, a lawyer at the law center, said they did not want to speak to the news media but were happy with the outcome.

Ms. Bruner said that Mr. Manc=EDa and Ms. Leiva, who are from El Salvador but are not related, would not live at the ranch and would probably sell it. Mr. Nethercott bought the ranch in 2003 for $120,000.

Mr. Manc=EDa, who lives in Los Angeles, and Ms. Leiva, who lives in the Dallas area, have applied for visas that are available to immigrants who are the victims of certain crimes and who cooperate with the authorities, Ms.Bruner said. She said that until a decision was made on their applications, they could stay and work in the United States on a year-to-year basis.

Mr. Manca and Ms. Leiva were caught on a ranch in Hebbronville, Tex., in March 2003 by Mr. Nethercott and other members of Ranch Rescue. The two immigrants later accused Mr. Nethercott of threatening them and of hitting Mr. Manca with a pistol, charges that Mr. Nethercott denied. The immigrants also said the group gave them cookies, water and a blanket and let them go after an hour or so.

The Salvadorans testified against Mr. Nethercott when he was tried by Texas prosecutors. The jury deadlocked on a charge of pistol-whipping but convicted Mr. Nethercott, who had previously served time in California for assault, of gun possession, which is illegal for a felon. He is now serving a five-year sentence in a Texas prison.

Mr. Manca and Ms. Leiva also filed a lawsuit against Mr. Nethercott; Jack Foote, the founder of Ranch Rescue; and the owner of the Hebbronville ranch, Joe Sutton. The immigrants said the ordeal, in which they feared that they would be killed by the men they thought were soldiers, had left them with post-traumatic stress.

Mr. Sutton settled for $100,000. Mr. Nethercott and Mr. Foote did not defend themselves, so the judge issued default judgments of $850,000 against Mr. Nethercott and $500,000 against Mr. Foote.

Mr. Dees said Mr. Foote appeared to have no substantial assets, but Mr. Nethercott had the ranch. Shortly after the judgment, Mr. Nethercott gave the land to his sister, Robin Albitz, of Prescott, Ariz. The Southern Poverty Law Center sued the siblings, saying the transfer was fraudulent and was meant to avoid the judgment.

Ms. Albitz, a nursing assistant, signed over the land to the two immigrants last week. "It scared the hell out of her," Margaret Pauline Nethercott, the mother of Mr. Nethercott and Ms. Albitz, said of the lawsuit. "She didn't know she had done anything illegal. We didn't know they had a judgment against my son."

This was not the first time the law center had taken property from a group on behalf of a client. In 1987, the headquarters of a Ku Klux Klan group in Alabama was given to the mother of a boy whose murder was tied to Klansmen. Property has also been taken from the Aryan Nations and the White Aryan Resistance, Mr. Dees said.

Joseph Jacobson, a lawyer in Austin who represented Mr. Nethercott in the criminal case, said the award was "a vast sum of money for a very small indignity." Mr. Jacobson said the two immigrants were trespassing on Mr. Sutton's ranch and would have been deported had the criminal charges not been filed against Mr. Nethercott.

He criticized the law center for trying to get $60,000 in bail money transferred to the immigrants. While the center said the money was Mr. Nethercott's, Mr. Jacobson said it was actually Ms. Nethercott's, who mortgaged her home to post bail for her son.

Mr. Nethercott and Mr. Foote had a falling out in 2004, and Mr. Foote left Camp Thunderbird, taking Ranch Rescue with him. Mr. Nethercott then formed the Arizona Guard, also based on his ranch.

In April, Mr. Nethercott told an Arizona television station, "We're going to come out here and close the border with machine guns." But by the end of the month, he had started his prison sentence.

Now, only remnants of Camp Thunderbird remain on his ranch, a vast expanse of hard red soil, mesquite and tumbleweed with a house and two bunkhouses . One bunkhouse has a storeroom containing some camouflage suits, sleeping bags, tarps, emergency rations, empty ammunition crates, gun parts and a chemical warfare protection suit.

In one part of the ranch, dirt is piled up to form the backdrop of a firing range. An old water tank, riddled with bullet holes, is on its side. A platform was built as an observation post on the tower that once held the water tank.

Charles Jones, who was hired as a ranch hand about a month before Mr. Nethercott went to prison, put up fences and brought in cattle to graze. He has continued to live on the property with some family members.

But now the cattle are gone, and Mr. Jones has been told that he should prepare to leave. "It makes me sick I did all this work," he said.

Ms. Nethercott said she was not sure whether her son knew that his ranch was being turned over to the immigrants, but that he would be crushed if he did.

"That's his whole life," she said of the ranch. "He'd be heartbroken if he lost it in any way, but this is the worst way."

THERE ARE, NO DOUBT, elements of politics and showmanship in the recent moves by the governors of New Mexico and Arizona to declare states of emergency along their borders with Mexico. New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson and Arizona Gov. Janet Napolitano are both Democrats up for reelection next year -- Mr. Richardson harbors presidential ambitions as well -- and illegal immigration is a front-burner issue in both states. The declarations free up state funds to be spent on extra patrols, equipment and other needs. But the acts are even more important as a cage-rattling device -- an "act of desperation," as Mr. Richardson called it, to prod Congress and the Bush administration to pay attention to the growing problem.

To the extent that these declarations are a publicity stunt to get Washington moving, we hope they work. Scores of illegal immigrants are dying in the hot desert. Drug smuggling, human trafficking and associated crimes are on the rise. The system is overwhelmed: Even if there were enough border patrol agents to apprehend all the undocumented workers, which there aren't, there wouldn't be enough other staff to process them or, especially in the case of those from countries other than Mexico, enough beds to hold them until they can be sent home. Meanwhile, as the recent controversy over day laborers in Herndon illustrates, the impact of illegal immigration reaches well beyond border states. As Ms. Napolitano predicted at a luncheon with Washington Post reporters and editors this week, "It's a border state issue now, but it's going to be a national issue."

And it's one that can't be solved through stepped-up enforcement alone: There is too much supply on the part of those who want to enter the United States, legally or illegally, and too much demand on the part of employers to fill jobs that would go begging without foreign workers. This is a point on which the Bush administration and the Democratic governors agree, at least in theory. President Bush has proposed -- though he's failed to push -- a plan for temporary worker visas that could reduce the incentive to enter the country illegally. "A strategy that simply hires a lot of border patrol agents and puts them on the line is not an effective strategy," Michael Chertoff, Department of Homeland Security secretary, told reporters this week.

There are some reasons to hope this fall could be the time for a more sensible, comprehensive approach. A proposal by Sens. John McCain (R-Ariz.) and Edward M. Kennedy (D-Mass.) includes a temporary guest worker program similar to the one the president outlined. Sens. Jon Kyl (R-Ariz.) and John Cornyn (R-Tex.) have put forward a more restrictive measure. "Immigration reform is going to be an interesting subject when we get back to Washington, D.C.," Mr. Bush said earlier this month. "I'm looking forward to the topic."

What's needed from Mr. Bush, though, is a commitment not simply to observe the debate over immigration reform but to join, if not lead, it. The episode just before the congressional recess, in which the administration abruptly withdrew its two witnesses from a Senate hearing on immigration reform, was not a good omen. But perhaps five weeks in a border state will buttress Mr. Bush's commitment to fix the problem of illegal immigration, not to simply talk about it.

The government's senior terrorism officials were poring through intelligence reports last summer suggesting that New York's financial district was being targeted by al Qaeda. The question at hand was whether to raise the nation's terrorism threat level to orange.

Asa Hutchinson, then an undersecretary at the Department of Homeland Security, recalled that he deferred to his absent boss. But Townsend, the top White House adviser on counterterrorism and homeland security, had a higher authority to invoke. "You don't understand," she said. "The president will be calling momentarily. We need your position."

From the low-ceilinged, windowless confines of a basement office in the West Wing, Townsend runs President Bush's far-flung campaign against terrorism. Her two predecessors were four-star generals who brought decades of experience to the fight. Townsend, 43, a former mob prosecutor, has a different credential -- the president's ear.

Just a little over two years ago, she had never met Bush and was viewed with suspicion by the inner circle of a tribalistic White House that does not easily accept outsiders. But the hard-charging Townsend has parlayed a succession of powerful patrons into one of the government's most important jobs. Along the way, in a city where partisan lines are rarely bridged, she has transformed herself from confidante of then-Attorney General Janet Reno to a confidante of George W. Bush.

In many ways, Townsend is the perfect match for a leader who sees the battle with al Qaeda as a black-and-white struggle against radical outlaws. At a time when experts in and out of government complain that the White House is more focused on killing and capturing Osama bin Laden's inner circle than the broader task of countering a rapidly metastasizing global jihad movement, Townsend offers Bush a "tactical, one-at-a-time prosecutor, 'get the bad guys' approach," said a former senior official who worked closely with her.

To some critics, that reflects a broader strategy mired in what one former counterterrorism official called "extreme amorphousness." Some longtime counterterrorism professionals complain that Townsend was not prepared for such an extraordinary task. Others nurse resentments that as a Justice Department official she did not do more to ensure that information on terrorist threats was shared more widely inside the government before the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.

But by all accounts, Townsend has impressed Bush with a tough efficiency and a bit of a swagger that resembles his own. Her influence has grown to the point that Cabinet secretaries and agency directors who do not normally return media calls about White House staff members rush to phone with lavish praise for a profile.

"She obviously has the confidence of the president, and that has a huge impact on her ability to influence the process," said Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff. She is the "coordinator, the facilitator, the bridge," as FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III put it, between the powerful institutions and clashing egos of a war cabinet. Townsend is both "honest broker" in the many internal debates, said national security adviser Stephen J. Hadley, and "crisis manager" during terrorist attacks such as the recent London bombings.

Among her many mentors, she counts Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, longtime FBI Director Louis J. Freeh and former White House counterterrorism czar Richard A. Clarke. Even Saudi princes greet her deferentially as Bush's personal emissary, although she had never been to the Middle East before signing on with the president. "He turns to her as a kind of go-to person," Rice said.

In recent months, Townsend has overseen an intelligence reorganization and is now directing the first White House review of its anti-terrorism campaign since the aftermath of Sept. 11, a process intended to broaden the struggle into a new "strategy against violent extremism." It's time, Townsend said in an interview, to "adjust the thermometer."

The first person in her family to graduate from high school, Townsend shows little interest in entertaining questions about her unlikely rise. But unlikely it has been -- mystifying, according to several Democrats who once worked alongside her at the Justice Department and considered her one of theirs, "meteoric" in the words of her best friend.

Townsend is a renowned detail freak, "an accumulator of the facts," as Mueller put it. This obsessive personality is wrapped in a colorful, even flamboyant style. In a city of dark threads, the petite Townsend sat for an interview in a butter-yellow pantsuit. She is a mother of two young sons who manages to make sure her pedicure matches her outfit and maintains her deep tan though she spends each day -- from 6:30 a.m. to 8 or 9 p.m. -- at the White House.

Even her husband, John -- an arbitrage lawyer, a classmate of Bush's at Andover and Yale, and a registered Democrat -- said his wife confounded expectations for someone in her position. "People tend to be surprised," he said. "They don't expect a woman. They don't expect a young woman. They don't expect a small, fairly attractive young woman. So she surprises people on several layers."

A Career Turning Point

On that fateful Sept. 11 nearly four years ago, Townsend was at home with her 2-week-old son, Patrick, frantically paging her close friend John O'Neill.

O'Neill, a legendary FBI official who led its efforts against al Qaeda before growing disillusioned, had just quit the bureau to head security at the World Trade Center. He assured her he was all right in a text message that arrived minutes before the first tower collapsed, burying him in the rubble.

The day came at a low point in Townsend's career. Until a few months earlier, she had run the Justice Department's Office of Intelligence Policy and Review that decided which cases merited supersecret intelligence wiretaps, work that took her inside al Qaeda cases, such as the 1998 embassy bombings in Africa.

She also became a key adviser to Reno, acting in her own words as a "back channel" between O'Neill and the attorney general, briefing her multiple times a day during a crisis. "Reno would call at all hours of the day or night from her office," Townsend's husband remembered.

"She was very close to Janet," Reno deputy Eric H. Holder Jr. said. "Not just professionally. Clearly there was a personal dynamic to it."

Townsend had arrived at Justice headquarters a few years earlier under the patronage of Reno's criminal chief. She is a native of Wantagh, Long Island, the daughter of a Greek American roofer and an Irish American bookkeeper. She rushed through American University in three years, then the University of San Diego law school. Her first job was at the Brooklyn district attorney's office. Early work on mob cases led Rudolph W. Giuliani to hire her in the U.S. attorney's office in New York; the future mayor recalled that "she was exactly like today -- very, very smart. Very much in charge."

After returning to Washington in late 1993, Townsend caught Reno's attention at the department's daily 8:30 a.m. senior staff meetings, recalled a former top aide who spoke on the condition of anonymity. "She was very 'we'll take care of it' in those meetings. She understands the principle that you say 'We'll take care of it' even if you have no clue how you'll actually take care of it."

By the late 1990s, Townsend was a fixture. "Fran would be back-channeling to Janet," the former aide said. "Things would be inked and decided. And Fran would go off to Janet and things would be decided the other way."

Her office would be a focus of controversy after Sept. 11. As the gatekeeper for intelligence wiretap requests, Townsend's office fought efforts to invoke the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act in matters that could result in criminal cases, fearing that prosecutors would use such surveillance to circumvent the more difficult threshold for obtaining a criminal wiretap. In practical terms, the result was what commission reports called "The Wall," fencing off investigators from potentially useful information about suspects on American soil.

In an example cited by a bipartisan congressional commission, Townsend refused to endorse a secret intelligence wiretap on Los Alamos scientist Wen Ho Lee because the FBI's interest in the case was "way too criminal." (She told the panel she did not recall making that remark but did not deny conveying such a point.) Townsend in recent years has said she fought "tooth and nail" against information-sharing restrictions. But three former senior advisers to Reno said they knew of no such examples. "She was one of the leading defenders of the famous Wall," one of them said. "She was an assiduous defender of the rules."

When Bush came into office, senior Justice officials were told by incoming Attorney General John D. Ashcroft's team that Townsend was one of those slated to go. They also mentioned complaints about her by U.S. District Judge Royce C. Lamberth, at the time head of the secret-wiretap court. "It was clear she was not a favored person by folks who were about to take over running the department," said a Reno adviser who spoke with them. "It had to have been a political thing: 'Anybody who could be this close to Reno, we don't want.' "

In the end, Townsend said, her departure was "an agreed-upon thing." "When John Ashcroft came in, there was no doubt in my mind he might decide to put in his own team, so I made that offer" to resign, she said. "Did they fire me? The answer is absolutely not. . . . I was ready to go, they were ready to put in their own team."

By that sad September morning, she was on maternity leave from her decidedly low-profile new job as intelligence chief for the Coast Guard. "We thought it was a nice, friendly place for someone expecting her second child," her husband said.

After spending the day as a "communications hub" for O'Neill's worried friends, Townsend turned her focus to the Coast Guard. The agency was not legally part of the "intelligence community" and not entitled to share sensitive information. Working from home, she helped the Coast Guard get added to intelligence legislation and transformed the agency's priority from South American drug-smuggling to the vulnerability of America's ports.

Moving Up the Ranks

The next leap came in spring 2003, when two Townsend patrons urged Rice to hire her at the National Security Council. Both Clarke, the publicity-savvy former counterterrorism chief who later criticized Bush for failure to pay early enough attention to the al Qaeda threat, and Gen. John A. Gordon, at the time Bush's homeland security chief, lobbied for Townsend.

"They used all the right adjectives," Rice recalled. "Smart, tough, persistent, which is important. . . . Somebody who will not let anything slip past her."

It was a controversial hire. Political hands in the White House worried about her past as a Democratic appointee. Republicans on Capitol Hill circulated a stinging memo with details of her connection to the Wall. National security veterans worried, as one career official who worked with her put it, "Is she senior enough for this?" Columnist Robert D. Novak wrote that Reno's onetime protege could turn out to be an "enemy within."

At the time, Townsend told an interviewer she had volunteered to resign. But by December, she was coordinating government response to terrorism scares that led to the grounding of holiday season flights from Europe. She had also bonded with the president.

On Christmas Eve, Rice recalled, "She said to the president, 'I'll call you tomorrow morning,' which was Christmas morning. And he said, 'Yeah, do that.' And then he thought about it and said, 'But when are you going to open your presents?' . . . She said, 'Don't worry, we'll find a time.' " That May, just a year after arriving in the White House, she was promoted to head both counterterrorism and homeland security offices. "There's a toughness to her," said former homeland security secretary Tom Ridge. "There's an intensity level to get the job done."

In the months since, she has served as the administration's public face defending its controversial election-season decision to raise terrorist threat levels and as Bush's envoy to inspect Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison. When a presidential commission headed by senior U.S. District Judge Laurence H. Silberman and former senator Charles S. Robb (D-Va.) recommended sweeping changes in the intelligence community, Bush tapped Townsend to implement them.

"She was very tenacious about forcing people to make the hard decisions," Hadley recalled. She confronted turf-conscious bureaucrats, telling them, as Hadley recalled, "If you're going to accept it, accept it. If you've got problems, what are they and how can we work through them?"

But this quintessential Washington operator enjoys getting out in the field, too. In her office, in addition to the obligatory pictures of her with Bush and the somber aerial view of the still-smoldering ruins of the World Trade Center, sits a more lighthearted snapshot. The picture was taken days earlier while she was in freefall at 13,500 feet, clutched in the arms of a Navy SEAL sky diving over San Diego.

The SEAL works with the top-secret team assigned to hunt down bin Laden and other remnants of al Qaeda's leadership that had recently come under attack in the wilds of Afghanistan. Townsend had flown to California to get a briefing from what she calls "the tippy end of the spear." Hurtling toward the ground at 126 mph was a side benefit of "pure joy."

In 1995 Kenneth Trentadue was murdered by federal agents in a federal prison in Oklahoma City. A coverup immediately went into effect. Federal authorities claimed Trentadue, who was being held in a suicide-proof cell, had committed suicide by hanging himself, but the state coroner would not buy the story.

Prison authorities tried to get family consent to cremate the body. But Trentadue had been picked up on a minor parole violation, and the story of suicide by a happily married man delighted with his two-month old son raised red flags to the family.

When the Trentadue family received Kenneth’s body and heavy makeup was scraped away, the evidence (available in photos on the Internet) clearly shows a person who had been tortured and beaten. His throat was slashed and he may have been garroted. There are bruises, burns and cuts from the soles of Trentadue’s feet to his head, wounds that obviously were not self-inflicted.

As the state coroner noted at the time, every investigative rule was broken by the federal prison. The coroner was not allowed into the cell, and the cell was scrubbed down prior to investigation.

The federal coverup was completely transparent. A US senator made inquiries, but the US Department of Justice (sic), knowing that it would not be held accountable, stuck to its fabricated story.

That was a mistake. Trentadue’s brother, Jesse, is an attorney. He believes that federal officials, like everyone else, must be held accountable for their crimes. He has been battling the Justice (sic) Department and the FBI for a decade.

Jesse Trentadue has amassed evidence that his brother was mistaken for Tim McVeigh’s alleged accomplice in the bombing of the federal building in Oklahoma City. Federal agents, believing that they had Richard Lee Guthrie in their hands, went too far in attempting to force him to talk.

Jesse Trentadue learned that the FBI had informants planted with two groups on which McVeigh may have relied: a white supremacist paramilitary training compound at Elohim City and the Mid-West Bank Robbery Gang. The implication is that the FBI had advance notice of McVeigh’s plans and may have been conducting a sting operation that went awry.

The FBI has documents that name the informants. Teletypes from then FBI director Louis Freeh dated January 4, 1996, and August 23, 1996, confirm that the FBI had informants imbedded with the Mid-West Bank Robbery Gang and in Elohim City. In these documents, Freeh reports to various FBI field offices that the Elohim City informant (possibly explosives expert and German national Andreas Carl Strassmeir) "allegedly has had a lengthy relationship with Timothy McVeigh" and "that McVeigh had placed a telephone call to Elohim City on 4/5/95, a day that he was believed to have been attempting to recruit a second conspirator to assist in the OKBOMB attack."

The FBI denied to federal judge Dale Kimball that any such documents existed. But someone had leaked the teletypes to Trentadue, and he put them before the judge along with an affidavit of their genuineness. Caught red-handed lying to a federal judge, the FBI was ordered to produce all documents Trentadue demanded. Judge Kimball gave the FBI until June 15, 2005, to deliver the incriminating records. Needless to say, the FBI doesn’t want to deliver and is attempting every possible dodge to escape obeying the judge’s order.

In his effort to uncover the DOJ’s coverup of his brother’s murder, Jesse Trentadue may have uncovered evidence of the FBI’s failure to prevent the bombing of the Murrah Building. It is bad enough that the murder of Kenneth Trentadue is covered over with many layers of DOJ perjury and the withholding and destruction of evidence. Evidence that the FBI was aware of McVeigh’s plan to bomb the Murrah Building and failed to prevent the deed would be an additional heavy blow to the prestige of federal law enforcement.

WARREN NELSON Date: Sat Aug 6, 2005 12:17 pm Subject: Re: [WETHEPEOPLE_UNITED] HELICOPTER ABOVE MURRAH @THE MOMENT OF THE OKC BOMBING Greetings, on that day me, my wife and a friend werewatching, and there were two helicopters flying abovethat building. One was taking pictures of the buildingand you could see the other one in the backround,apparently flying in circles around the building.Suddenly, you could see two blasts from the center ofthe roof, just seconds apart. We called ABC news andthey told us, if we brought them $15.00 and a blanktape they would give us a copy of the segment they hadjust shown, however, when my wife went back to get it,they gave her back the tape and money, saying that ifshe wanted a copy of that, she would have to get acourt order. That segment was never aired again, COVERUP. I believe the whole thing was a putup job, bygovernment just as was 911, and they both stink. America needs to wake up and smell the coffee, becauseit is not what they think. Warren Nelson--- "S.T.Ill Freeman"wrote:-Milo Date: Tue Aug 2, 2005 7:41 pmSubject: milorad104Send IMSend Email

HELICOPTER ABOVE MURRAH AT THE MOMENT OF THE OKCBOMBINGPatrick BrileyAugust 2, 2005NewsWithViews.comOn the morning of April 19 1995 a helicopter hovered near and then over the Murrah building before andafter it was bombed at 9:02 am. Several very reliable witnesses told me they saw this helicopter above theMurrah building. At a time when the public was being asked in OKC tocall the FBI with leads about the bombing, I called the FBI offices in OKC on April 21, 1995 and asked tospeak with an FBI agent to tell him about thehelicopter and the witnesses. FBI agent Dan Vogel tookmy call and I fully identified myself to him with myname. I spoke about one sentence to agent Vogel aboutthe helicopter witnesses when Vogel ended the call by telling me that the FBI would NOT be pursuing thehelicopter information and by abruptly hanging up thetelephone. The one sentence I did tell Vogel was that I knew of several reliable witnesses who had seen a helicopternear and above the Murrah building before and afterthe Murrah bombing. I was not given the opportunity byVogel to describe the helicopter or tell him who thewitnesses were by name before he abruptly hung up onme. And if I had been given the chance I would havesuggested to Vogel that the FBI track down who wasflying the helicopter to find out what they saw andwho they were. But Vogel and the FBI clearly did NOT want to know orinvestigate. And neither Vogel nor anyone else fromthe FBI ever called me back about the story. The FBIknew how to reach me and Vogel knew who I was. Vogelknew who I was not only because I gave him my name butalso because his wife Dee Vogel had worked with mywife for over ten years and my wife had taught his sonAdam Vogel at Deer Creek High School near OKC. FBI agent Dan Vogel did not even want this informationfrom me on April 21, 1995 and he NEVER called me back.Believe me, he knows me. I him gave my name when Icalled and I explained to him then that my wife workedwith his wife for over 10 years and also taught hisson in high school.My helicopter witnesses included a 32-year veteran ofAir Force intelligence and a lady with a commandingview in a corporate skyscraper, the Kerr McGeebuilding in downtown OKC. Another helicopter witness was OKC resident DebbieBurdick who went to the FBI on the morning of the OKCbombing and told them of seeing McVeigh and John Doesin McVeigh’s yellow Mercury, a brown Chevy truck and ablue Cavalier parked in line north of the Murrahbuilding. Burdick said the men were looking up at ahelicopter over the Murrah building just momentsbefore the Murrah building was bombed.Debbie Burdick was also threatened by FBI agent Odomfrom Denver twice, during and after the federalbombing trials, not to go to the press or to attorneyswith her story. Burdick was asked by Odom to theeffect, “You do not want to harm America by revealingyour story, do you? But as a result of Burdick’sinformation three Middle Eastern men, Anis and AsadSiddiqy and Mohammed Chafti in the blue cavalier alsoassociated with the 1993 WTC bombing were arrested onthe day of the OKC bombing and then later released bydirect intervention of the FBI.More- http://www.newswithviews.com/Briley/Patrick13.htm

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Concerning grand jury probe re: 9/11Two civilian defense contractor employees--told to remain silent - say other workers quietly retro-fitted missile and remote control systems onto A-3 jets at Colorado public airport prior to September 11 when similar A-3 parts much smaller than a Boeing 757 were found at Pentagon

Missile & remote control systems added to small jets before 9-11; same parts found at Pentagon

Presidential candidate says scores of retired and active military and intelligence officials would testify before current grand jury probing government involvement in 9/11 attacks

by Tom Flocco

Fort Collins, Colorado -- May 26, 2005 -- TomFlocco.com --

According to two civilian defense contractor employees working at commercial corporate facilities at Fort Collins-Loveland Municipal Airport (left), in the months before the September 11 attacks U.S. Air Force defense contractors brought in A-3 Sky Warrior aircraft under cover of darkness to be completely refitted and modified at the small civilian airport in Colorado.

The revelations are important evidence for a reportedly ongoing secret 9/11 probe because widely available Federal Emergency Management Administration (FEMA) photographs taken during the attacks clearly show that the few aircraft parts found at the Pentagon belonged to a small jet very similar to a modified A-3 Sky Warrior--not the American Airlines Boeing 757.

It is not known whether all members of Congress are aware of the under-the-radar-screen grand jury proceedings, who has already testified, and whether the probe is purposefully being kept from public knowledge, according to government intelligence sources.

The two witnesses say that separate military contractor teams--working independently at different times--refitted Douglas A-3 Sky Warriors (above) with updated missiles, Raytheon's Global Hawk unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) remote control systems, fire control systems, engines, transponders, and radio-radar-navigation systems--a total makeover, seemingly for an operation more important than use as a simple missile testing platform for defense contractor Hughes-Raytheon.

The employees asked not to be identified for personal safety reasons and fear of job retaliation; but both told 2008 independent presidential candidate Karl Schwarz (left) "the Air Force brought in separate teams to do top-secret military work unrelated to commercial aviation at our airport, and we were told by our bosses not to discuss what we had seen with anyone."

The witnesses were quite fearful about several recent "suicides, car wrecks--mysterious deaths--directly related to the aviation experts" working on the systems that were installed on the A-3?s at Fort Collins-Loveland--having breached the government-blocked information flow at great personal risk, according to Schwarz--but providing more evidence for a New York 9/11 investigation.

Schwarz, a former Republican from Arkansas now living in Georgia and running as an independent to clean up government corruption and crime told TomFlocco.com that he met with the employees for about an hour in February to discuss the issue.

The witnesses told Schwarz that each jet was placed in a hanger just big enough for a work crew and one A-3 Sky Warrior; and "we were under strict orders not to discuss what the military teams were doing or what we saw."

The presidential candidate told us "there are about 150 retired and active U.S. military and federal intelligence officers who will come forward and testify regarding government involvement in the September 11 attacks--but only if there is a serious criminal grand jury."

Small plane evidence moved at Pentagon

The approximate 16-foot entry hole at the outside facade of the Pentagon on 9/11 has been the subject of countless questions by those who say the hole was caused by an air-to-ground missile (AGM) fired from a small military jet rather than an impact from a Boeing 757.

Interestingly, the Hughes division manufactures the AGMs; and the Raytheon division maintains the last few A-3 Sky Warriors in operation save 2-4 Air Force jets--while also manufacturing the Global Hawk UAV remote control systems.

Some reasons cited to support a missile hole include evidence that a) the wings and rear stabilizer caused virtually no damage to the outside walls and windows at point of impact, b) no 757 interior or exterior parts were found at the scene, c) the soft nose of a 757 would have had difficulty piercing through three Pentagon wall rings, and d) three aircraft parts found were similar to the somewhat outdated but still serviceable Douglas A-3 Sky Warrior military attack jet rather than the much larger Boeing 757.

Air-traffic controllers from the Washington, DC sector originally said the incoming plane was a military jet according to reports; but no grand jury has called them to testify and they have been strangely gagged from speaking out.

One air traffic controller from another Northeast sector revealed to a 9-11 widow that FBI threats were made of both a personal and career nature: "You are ordered never to speak about what you saw on your screen during the attacks; and if you do, things will not go well for you and your family."

Curiously, a large piece of wreckage was found in the entry hole; but the public was kept from closely observing what appears to be a sheared-off piece of wing from a much smaller jet than a Boeing 757.

A group of military personnel and federal officials in suits tightly covered the piece of wreckage with a blue tarp and carried it away to a waiting truck. No reporters or independent aircraft experts have been permitted to examine any of the recovered aircraft parts and no subpoenas have been issued to hear public grand jury testimony from the "movers."

Other government officials who looked more like FBI agents than rescue workers were also photographed moving evidence around immediately after the crash; but none have been subpoenaed to publicly testify as to whether they were bringing evidence to or removing it from a mass murder crime scene.

As if they had prior knowledge, within minutes after the Pentagon crash--FBI agents quickly confiscated a) video tape from a gas station security camera aimed directly at the exact point of impact while recording the size of the plane and/or missile, b) security camera video film from a nearby Sheraton hotel and c) film from a Virginia Transportation Department freeway overpass camera.

This, raising significant questions about obstruction of justice since no reporter, independent crime scene expert or grand jury has been able to view and analyze the film since it was confiscated or certify that it was not tampered with--and those surrendering the film were again told not to discuss the matter.

It is not known whether the FBI has invoked immunity from prosecution regarding this evidence--or cited "National State Secrets" in a manner similar to FBI linguist Sibel Edmonds' case linked to financing the 9-11 attacks, drug money laundering and political campaign contributions.

The explosive evidence raises questions as to whether the grand jury will subpoena all Pentagon wreckage to determine whether it was a section from an A-3 Sky Warrior as many knowledgeable sources believe but also whether the recovered parts do not match a Boeing 757 as asserted by many.

Schwarz told us military officials will likely say the A-3?s were being fitted with system platforms to test-fire missiles; but the time-line of secret refitting prior to the attacks and recovered parts consistent with an A-3 attack jet found at the Pentagon provide credible evidence that an unregistered Sky Warrior was diverted to be used on September 11 to fire a missile into the Pentagon. The Defense Secretary spilled the beans at least once in a national interview.

One month after the attacks on October 12, 2001 Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld told Parade Magazine, "Here we're talking about plastic knives, and using an American Airlines flight filled with our citizens, and the missile to damage this building, and similar (inaudible) that damaged the World Trade Center [para. #12]."

Schwarz also indicated that New York City District Attorney Robert Morgenthau (left) has more than enough evidence for a 9-11 NYC criminal case, and that prosecutors should investigate who authorized the refitting of the A-3 Sky Warriors with remote control and air-to-ground missiles at the civilian airport, given the A-3 jet parts found at the Pentagon.

A-3 Sky Warrior parts found--not Boeing 757

More-> Ref.

May 27, 2005 in Current Affairs Permalink Comments (0) TrackBack

What’s In A Name?By Sovereign Davedwissel@adelphia.net

When you hear the name “Applebee’s Restaurant” you think of food served in a restaurant.

The name “Coca-cola” is a drink company selling cola products.

When you hear the name “Walmart Department Store” you know it refers to a store that sells a variety of merchandise in departments.

Even if the name doesn’t include a descriptor of the products such as Nike the company goes to a great effort to insure that it’s their “quality shoes” you envision and not something deceptive. No decent company uses deception to misrepresent the product they sell. Besides, there are plenty of laws to insure they don’t “bait and switch.”

So let’s look at government and see if they “live-up-to” the same standards as industry. In industry, one looks at the name and identifies the purpose directly from the name; for government one must look at the name and assume the direct opposite purpose. This is really easy once one gets used to thinking “truth” for industry and “deception via opposite meaning” for government.

Let’s examine some of the “bait and switch” deception government uses in the names of the programs they promote:

• PATRIOT ACT: This is an easy sell. Everybody wants to be a patriot! No “apple-pie” American would want to be against ANYTHING that includes the word Patriot. However, this act has NOTHING to do with PATRIOTISM and EVERYTHING to do with its opposite: NATIONALISM. No patriot would trade ANY freedoms for security. Only those bent on Nationalism and control want someone to trade freedom for security. True patriots would simply say, “Give us some weapons and you’ll see how safe we’ll make this country from terrorists.” On the other hand Nationalists say, “We’ll take your guys and get you to fight bogus wars on terror for us.” If Walmart had to market this program in its store, the FTC would have insisted on calling this the “NATIONALISTIC SOCIALIST ACT”.

• HOMELAND SECURITY: This is a double deception. It implies “my home” and “I’m secure” to yield “I’ll be secure on the land of my home.” Again, no freedom loving person needs restrictions on their movement and stockades to insure freedom and liberty. If this were in industry, it would have been labeled, “FATHERLAND SECURITY [aka sig heil]”

• SOCIAL SECURITY: Now this one is “half” truth in that it is indeed about SOCIALISM. But again its purpose is anything BUT security! This is nothing more than a social agenda tax and a way of numbering and tracking people [Colin Powell said so too]. The Nazi’s had a name for this one above the concentration camps: “Work will set you free.”

• LIBERTY AND JUSTICE FOR ALL: In reality, semblance justice. Justice only when two parties in court are independent of government: Liberty for government; justice for some, death for a few.

• REAL ID: This represents the future ability of government to implement “the mark of the beast.” It’s a “stepping stone” in the war on the people. The REAL ID will be the REAL numbers they tattoo on your forehead or the REAL ID chip inserted under your skin; it’s a “NATIONAL [your papers please] ID”

• WAR ON TERROR: This implies it is a war on those who oppose our “way of life” and terrorists. Again this is an “easy sell” as no one wants terrorism. But in the eyes of government, anyone who opposes the growth and policies of government will eventually be labeled as something akin to a terrorist. Examples abound: Militia group, enemy combatant, tax protestor, war protestor, anti-government person, traitor, etc. As government becomes more intrusive, more people become enemies. So this war ultimately becomes, “The War on the People”.

• MEDICAL PRIVACY ACT: A doctor told me they already took great efforts to insure privacy before this act and that this act merely permitted government to snoop into medical care. He’s right: The next time you visit a doctor, examine the paper they forward for you to sign. It states that they can share information for “law enforcement purposes”. So literally some police officer could demand a copy of your medical records as it mentions nothing of a judicial court order. In our study of “opposites” this might be medical but it’s only privacy is from those NOT connected with government. If this was a Nike shoe, it would have been called, “Medical Privacy [except from Government] Act”.

If all these programs were marketed by CocaCola, Nike and Walmart the following warning labels would have been applied to the acts:

• Warning: The FDA has determined that these acts will seriously deprive you of life, liberty and happiness. Do not take if you have any signs of depression or mental illness. Do not take these products if you expect to think rationally. Do not take these products and expect to operate the machinery of a productive life. Do not take if you have a dependency problem; taking these products will cause government to be dependent on your livelihood and will make you a perpetual slave. Do not use while pregnant or nursing--May cause brain-dead and “dumbed-down” children. Do not take if you have ulcers or have a history of cancer and heart disease.

• Warning: The surgeon general has determined that these “smoking gun” acts will cause you to become “brain dead” leading to government euthanasia.

• Warning: The EPA has determined these products to be environmentally unsafe. Use sparingly. Continued abuse will destroy the environment of liberty and freedom for years to come. All these acts have been known to cause “big government” cancerous growth in laboratory rats. These acts are known to cause a “global warming” declaration of independence.

• Warning: ATF warns that continued usage of these products could lead to gun control and resulting random acts of violence against government.

• Warning: The FTC has determined that the sponsors of these acts use deceptive practices such as “bait and switch” and false advertising. Before you sign a W2 or 1040 the act’s sponsor must provide a “truth and lending” disclosure identifying ALL rights you surrender. You are entitled to a mandatory 3 day waiting period after signing. Lemon law: The FTC has determined that these acts are merely more “law for government” masquerading as “law for people”; you have no legal duty to volunteer in their application to you.

• Warning: The NRC and UN Inspectors have determined that these acts are “Trojan horse” weapons of mass destruction to be used against “we the People”.

He killed Terri Schindler-Schiavo by judicial order, resulting in the disabled woman’s death on March 31 by starvation and dehydration.

And then with blind vision, he signed an order falsely stating that Terri’s estranged husband and guardian Michael Schiavo had predeceased Terri, dying on March 30, 2005.

At least that’s what the Letters of Administration said that was filed April 7 in the office of Ken Burke, clerk of the circuit court of Pinellas County containing Greer’s signature.

But then there’s the matter of Greer’s judicial counterpart in the Sixth Judicial Cirucit, John C. Lenderman. The Empire Journal has learned that Lenderman represented Prudential Insurance Company in the Schiavo matter and apparently failed to make the disclosure to anyone even though his sister, Martha Lenderman, is a member of the board of directors of the hospice where Terri Schiavo died.

Here is the real story that I am cross-posting with permission as it intersects Terri's case.

THE FOLLOWING WAS SENT TO ME BY A FRIEND.

I will need lots of help to prepare and send out a Press Release about the demonstration against the Judicial Corruption being enabled by the Florida Judicial Qualifications Commission (JQC) and the Florida Supreme Court.

The JQC is the very corrupt arm of the Florida Supreme Court run by pro-death and very corrupt executives with a pro-death agenda for activist Judges who ignore the law and the state and federal constitutions.... "OUR Laws, Civil Rights and Constitutions"!! Now the same corrupt JQC hierarchy has elected to persecute Honorable Gregory P. Holder, an honest and moral judge who believes in the truth and the law and his oath of office to protect the constitutions. Judge Holder is a West Point Graduate and when secretly requested to join a gang of corrupt judges to fix cases and take bribes, etc., he went to the authorities and exposed this offer to join the "Good Ole Boys" in robes for personal wealth via judicial racketeering and corruption.

Why not? Everybody is doing it...... after reading this, take the time to look up Judge Greg Holder on the internet and see what hell they are putting him through because he is an honest and moral judge and was working undercover for Florida's citizens to expose these crimes. Now his life has been threatened and now made pure hell on earth. Judge Holder, a very devout Catholic with a wonderful loving family is being attacked by the same corrupt JQC, corrupt judges and law enforcement groups that have protected corrupt Judges, Cope, Greer, Baird and many others in Pinellas and Hillsborough and other Florida Counties.

Jeb Bush, the FBI, the FDLE, State Attorneys, and all other local law enforcement agencies continue to turn a blind eye to what is going on to try to bring down an honest and Christian Judge who is truly Honorable! Other judges conspired against Judge Holder and were then caught breaking into his locked chambers in an attempt to steal private documents and to plant false evidence in his personal desk. However, an honest bailiff caught them in the act.

What did the JQC do? Nothing! Just a big misunderstanding. Finally, when enough public outcry and political pressure was increased, these judges ran for cover to keep their big fat pensions and resigned from the bench. Now some others in this same corrupt group planted new false and fabricated evidence in an anonymous envelope about Judge Holder and the same JQC is persecuting him to get him removed from the bench and lose his attorney's Bar license to practice law.

The U.S. Government cleared Judge Holder of any wrongdoing, yet the "Political Thugs" in Florida want to give him "Pay Back" to send a message that if you are not corruptible, you shouldn't tell anybody else and just keep this dirty little secret from the unsuspecting and dumb citizens of Florida.

Had Terri been before honest Judge Holder, she would've attended the visit with the Pope that her parents, Bob and Mary just attended in Rome. Think about this and see what a statement we all can make to protect this judge who does the right thing and is honest. Do it for Terri and all of the other Terri-Like Pro-Death Cases soon to be before the likes of Greer all over America.

Because he's honest and pro-life, the JQC will now order another "murder" to ruin this good and honest Judge's career on the bench. This continued persecution by the JQC and other corrupt judges like Greer, etc., has caused Judge Holder to exhaust his family's personal savings as well as put terror into his family's hearts as their beloved Dad is being lynched by judicial corruption that has taken over Florida's Courts and law enforcement.

Please send this information far and wide in America and around the world and I will soon supplement this notice with exact places to park and time and location to demonstrate to support Terri's cause and to support Judge Holder who is in the battle of his life against the corrupt tyrants in the Supreme Court of Florida and the corrupt thugs running the JQC.

The JQC's Lords of Judicial Crime, report to nobody but themselves and are paid huge secret salaries that nobody is permitted to examine or audit for possible felony fraud, false billings and travel expenses and theft of taxpayer's funds for their personal use.

The local Tampa FBI was investigating the judicial corruption in Tampa Bay based on information from several sources including Judge Holder and he was proven right on the mark..... and then the Chief Judges threatened the FBI with whatever dirt they had on the FBI or the FDLE and the investigations were stopped quite suddenly. Hmmmmm? Why?? There are credible facts and some statements of big sex clubs involving public officials and drugs and sex paid with tax payers funds... and then this was all hushed up when judges were to have been caught having all types of perverted sex inside the courthouse and at homes or gathering spots in Tampa Bay along with law enforcement agency heads. Look how rampant it is and State Attorneys, like Bernie McCabe and others seem not to care..... how deeply are they involved? Bernie McCabe is to have had much more hard evidence on Michael's assault and murderous attack on Terri than California's jury had on Scott Peterson's murder of Laci!

Think about this and try to read the "original" SunStar medic's and police reports at the crime scene where Terri laid on the floor nearly dead with head and neck bones and body bones broken. Judge Holder would've let ALL of this evidence into a fair and just trial for Terri. ALL OF IT. When this intentionally hidden evidence is seen by an honest Tampa Federal Grand Jury, of a civil murder trial federal jury, if permitted, they will surely indict George Greer, Baird, Felos, Bushnell, McCabe, Rice, Michael and many others.... as conspiracy is a major felony in the murder and torture of Terri. She was clearly denied her federal civil rights and was intentionally murdered.... this is not in question.

The corrupt JQC and law enforcement failed in their duties to remove Greer from the bench long before he was given Terri's case, They have political "bull feces" smeared all over their faces and they are about to drown in their own corrupt political sewage. So many forget that this was a hideous torture murder of the most cruel kind (under color of law) and only our dedicated group seemed to care.

Greer, Michael and Felos are laughing at all of us and "High Fiving" with his lawyer pals who have put money into his hands to continue this fraud on our country. Greer has now replaced God in his own mind. Former Sheriff Rice now wants to become Florida's Attorney General. None of this will stop until the broken JQC is replaced with honest citizens and finally does it's job and exposes corrupt judges, which is their stated job for the citizen's of Florida. Instead, they target honest judges who refuse to get involved in this rampant corruption.

Now the scared corrupt judges call Judge Holder a "snitch" or a "whistleblower" in order to smear him. In fact, Judge Holder should be appointed by Governor Jeb Bush to head up a new top judicial position and oversee a honest Citizen Judicial Review Board and investigate and prosecute the rampant public corruption now taking place in Florida's courts.

Now is the time for all of us to attack back against these frauds in high public office and beat them at their own game and put them in prison. Just letting them resign to keep their fat pensions is not just and fair. It's no more than letting a habitual bank robber just return his armed robbery proceeds and resign from being an armed bank robber.

Greer ordered this murder! Our beloved Terri was taken by his hand. Our constitution in Florida is turned on it's ear and is now in the political dumpster of felony corruption. The people of Florida and the nation are still in control and can make a difference and run these political felons and bad cops at all levels out of the halls of justice and the government's castles and give them a nice green processed meat sandwich and kool-aid in one of our nice state or federal prisons for a few decades to think about Terri.

Stay tuned...... as times and trial dates may "suddenly" change once the Supreme Court and the JQC and media gets wind of our planned demonstrations for Terri's honor and for a very brave Judge Holder.... and our own civil rights and civil duty to demand immediate and sweeping changes in Florida's corrupt judicial cesspool and drop all charges against this good Judge, Greg Holder.

Use all of our current Terri posters and have a few that say "Support Judge Greg Holder" and many that say "Ban the JQC", "Investigate the JQC" and "Impeach Judge Greer" and other such anti-judicial corruption posters.

All the very best and send this to every local and national news outlet you can find and to all of your lists who will help Terri's memory.

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The reason, I did not send this to news outlets, is I am awaiting a press conference to be held shortly by another supporter for JUSTICE, concerning a person not on our list.

A friend of mine, a retired detective and coroner's investigator has just finished looking at all the medical and legal reports available on Terri's case. He says there are so many cover-ups that it isn't funny, but that Florida also has some outdated laws and no laws at all in matters where they should. (He was just down there speaking with a probate lawyer and judge regarding a family death where there was no will. He says the lack of good probate law is astounding!)

For example, in some other states, if the bone scan had been discovered, even after 11 years being hidden, and showed what it does, Michael Schiavo would have been immediately removed as guardian, guardianship could easily have been attained by her parents and a criminal investigation would have been done post haste. Terri would be alive now.

The physical therapist who originally requested the bone scan should have reported the results to authorities immediately too. Therefore, my friend says it appears that the therapist, the hospital and others right on down the line covered up the tragedy of Terri's collapse from the git go and attorneys, the judge, nursing homes and the hospice have just perpetuated the "lie" from beginning to end. Terri could be alive today.

He also told me that if Thogmartin lives up to his medical expertise, he will be able to find the reason that Terri collapsed in the first place, even though it has been 15 years. If he proves what many of us suspect, then Michael Schiavo could be prosecuted for murder.

Also, worst comes to worst, the Schindler's could file a civil suit against Michael Schiavo (and possibly others) for wrongful death. He would not spend time in jail, but they could sue his butt off and if they win, they will finally know some of the truth. They have lots of evidence to back up such a suit.

I'm wondering if a wrongful death suit could be brought against Greer, Felos, and Schiavo as a class action suit on behalf of disabled and elderly people in this country. There were certainly many laws broken in Terri's case, and Judge Greer's faulty reasoning led to her death which also, because of the precedence of case law, puts all people in the same class as Terri in danger of losing their lives illegally, too. I would certainly participate in such a wrongful death suit if we could find an organization to fund the suit. I'm sure a lot of other people would, too.

FBI has secret docs it's reticent to give up - Judge ordered disclosure of info on informants that could shed light on Oklahoma City tragedyPosted: May 25, 2005 5:00 p.m. Easternhttp://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=44444

The FBI says it has located 340 documents related to the bombing of the Oklahoma City federal building in 1995, documents that could reveal damaging information about what the agency and its informants knew about the mass murder plot, reports the McCurtain Daily Gazette.

According to the report in the McCurtain County, Okla., paper, the documents address the monitoring of the bombing by FBI informants, Alabama attorney Morris Dees and Dees' organization, the Southern Poverty Law Center.

Writes reporter J.D. Cash in the Gazette: "If proven true, the ramifications of such disclosures would be far-reaching. Not only could the discovery of these documents lead to additional arrests and prosecutions in the OKC bombing case, but evidence of a cover-up of a sting operation involving the FBI and a private charity could ruin a number of careers of highly placed individuals."

The documents are part of an extensive filing made in federal court in Salt Lake City, Utah, on Monday. A court order was obtained by Salt Lake City attorney Jesse Trentadue, the plaintiff in a Freedom of Information suit against the Oklahoma City FBI office, the Gazette reported. Trentadue has been seeking evidence in the untimely death of his brother, whose body was found beaten and slashed while the inmate awaited a parole violation hearing.

Trentadue believes his brother was tortured and killed by government agents who mistakenly thought he was involved with executed killer Timothy McVeigh and others in a string of bank robberies and the bombing of the Oklahoma City federal building.

After learning the FBI was involved in a sting operation with the Southern Poverty Law Center, Trentadue, the Gazette reports, sought a copy of two teletypes from former FBI Director Louis Freeh that discussed the undercover operation "that proved the FBI knew in advance McVeigh's plans for bombing a federal building."

The FBI initially denied it had the teletypes, but after Trentadue produced redacted copies of them, he went to court to force the FBI to cough up copies of their original un-redacted versions.

On May 5, U.S. District Court Judge Dale A. Kimball ordered the FBI to turn over un-redacted copies of two teletypes sent by Freeh to a select group of FBI field offices, including the OKBOMB task force in Oklahoma City. Kimball's order also included instructions to perform an extensive search for other records involving McVeigh, his alleged co-conspirators and informants working for the Southern Poverty Law Center.

The paper reported that, according to a Jan. 4, 1996, teletype, Freeh disclosed the Southern Poverty Law Center had an informant at the white supremacist Elohim City compound when McVeigh called the facility requesting assistance with his plans. The teletype said the call was made on April 17, 1995 – 48 hours before a truck bomb destroyed the Murrah Federal Building, killing 168 persons and injuring 500 more.

For years, the FBI has repeatedly denied the agency had any prior knowledge of the bomb plot.

The FBI now says it has found 340 documents that could also link the SPLC to McVeigh, Elohim City and members of the Aryan Republican Army.

On Monday, the FBI proposed several alternatives to turning over the documents listed in Kimball's order, saying it did not have time to comply with the judge's order to turn over the material Trentadue is seeking by June 15.

Said an agency representative: "In the past, the backlog in the FOIPA Section has been exacerbated by the high volume of administrative appeals that will require review and response by the FBI's FOIPA Section personnel. … At the present time, the FBI is involved in over 150 pending lawsuits in various federal district and appellate courts throughout the United States."

The agency further argued that revealing the elements of its intelligence-gathering operation at Elohim City would not be in the best interests of the nation.Refs:http://disc.server.com/discussion.cgi?disc=149495;article=84355;title=APFNRelated stories:

=============WHO KILLED TERRY YEAKEY?Only a couple of hours into the rescue, Sgt. Terrence Yeakey became painfully aware of something disturbing. Did he somehow figure out that the building had been blown from the inside and that the news reports were baloney? Did he overhear a strange conversation from some of the many ATF agents who were on the scene sooner than they should have been? Whatever it was, Terry was upset. He called his wife that morning crying - the big ol' Teddy Bear of a guy was crying - and saying repeatedly, "It's not true. It's not what they are saying. It didn't happen that way." Terry Yeakey may have been the first to discover the sham.http://www.apfn.org/apfn/yeakey.htm

[APFN] The Terrance (Terry) Yeakey IncidentTerrance (Terry) Yeakey was a courageous young blackOklahoma City police officer who was on duty near theMurrah Building the morning of that building's bombing.Officer Yeakey entered the bombed out Murrah buildingand saw things that apparently caused him to be murdered.The hideous details are within these audio tapes, an interview with Terrance Yeakey's wife:(Real Player)Part 1http://www.apfn.org/audio/tyeakey1.rmPart 2http://www.apfn.org/audio/tyeakey2.rm

I just read on the web where you have been invited to help with a protest against the murder of Terri in September. I pray that you will accept this invitation. Something must be done and apparently all of our elected officials have chosen to ignore our requests for an investigation. This was worst than a "beheading" because our government could have stopped this murder. I never dreamed such a thing would have ever been allowed in America. I feel that Greer and Michael Schiavo should be tried for premediated murder and should also be investigated for medicare fraud. Any help you can give to this cause will be greatly appreciated by thousands of people who know the truth concerning this issue.

May 25, 2005 in Current Affairs Permalink Comments (0) TrackBack

Schindlers Could Contest Michael Schiavo As Executor, Share in EstateIt’s been nearly two months since Terri Schindler-Schiavo died at a Pinellas Park hospice by judicial homicide but her death certificate is still not on file in the Pinellas County records.

And although her estranged husband who ardently sought her death for nearly seven years has petitioned for administration of her estate, he has not been legally named as the personal representative or executor as the court order issued is invalid.

In fact, probate court judge George W. Greer declared in a court order filed March 31 that Michael Schiavo became deceased on March 30, 2005. A deceased person can’t be executor of their own estate.

Without any death certificate on file, Michael Schiavo can’t file any life insurance claims as he has allegedly failed to file evidence of death as required by Florida’s Probate Rules.

Of course, there’s also his sworn statement, under penalties of perjury, that he is the decedent’s “heir at law” and that he is qualified to serve as the personal representative under the laws of Florida.

But is he? Not only has he blatantly violated Florida guardianship laws for years but he has also violated Florida law pertaining to adultery which could void his claim of “heir at law”.

There’s also the matter of the still ongoing investigation of Florida’s Department of Children and Families (DCF) in which he was named as the chief suspect in allegations of abuse, neglect and exploitation.

Cont.

May 25, 2005 in Current Affairs Permalink Comments (0) TrackBack

Eyeballing Rumsfeld's Mystery Operations25 May 2005

John Stanton has been threatened by Steptoe & Johnson, CACI's law firm, for his May 9, 2005 report on CACI's secret operations for the US Defense Department:

http://cryptome.org/rummy-op.htm

http://cryptome.org/caci-threat.zip

A. writes 24 May 2005:

The following is regarding the John Stanton/CACI article dated May 9, 2005.

The address of "18th and F Street" is the ghost address for the GSA and is used when the government needs a double blind address they can list for a U.S. Government ghost contractor. The legal flacks at CACI are correct is claiming that CACI does not have an office at that location as they don't. It is a government office building used by GSA that is 2 blocks away from the White House complex, and only a few blocks away from the State Department. The "proper physical address" for this location for actually: "1800 F Street NW", and not the "18th and F Street" address which i commonly used as a placeholder for black contracts and purchases.

The 2011 Crystal City address is also a ghost address as the proper one is actually "2011 S. Clark Place", which is also known as "Crystal City 2", and more recently as "220 20th Street". The use of the 2011 Crystal City address indicates that the company listing such an address was likely using it before June of 2004 when the city changed the numbering scheme for the Crystal City office center. Again when the legal mouth piece at CACI claims that the company does not have an address at "2011 Crystal City" they are technically correct as the CACI office space would actually have been 220 20th Street, or Crystal City, Bldg 2, Suite 900. This address has been historically been used by the GSA, CIA, DIA, DOD for a legion of front organizations, ghost businesses, and defense and intelligence contractors including Lockheed, Boeing, TKC Communications, TKC Management, Battele, SAIC, CACI, Titan, SGI, AMS and so on. The office space at this address are laced with SCIF space and have been historically targeted by foreign intelligence agencies for decades to the point that for decades the FBI has been crawling all over the records of Smith Realty, Vornado (who owns Smith Realty), and the Marriott/Sheraton property to see who is renting or who was trying to rent office space nearby that could be for eavesdropping purposes.

To further confuse the matter the building is also known by the address of both "Crystal Plaza 2", and "2121 Jefferson Davis Highway", and the location is being renovated. While the building has been under renovation the fire department has had to make a number of visits due to "suspicions fires in the building" that resulted in newly occupied areas being closed back down.

The 2011 address has also been used by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office for quite a while, and several law firms related to patents had offices in the building, but then so did several intelligence agencies and government contractors. After 9/11 the US PTO loaned out quite a bit of space in the building to the Pentagon for the war effort, and buses could be seen shuttling people in uniform between this building and the Pentagon as this and the other three buildings in this complex were used as emergency space after the damage to the Pentagon and a launching point for the war. Rumsfeld has made dozens, if not hundreds of visits to this specific address, and likely had a secondary office here. Rumsfeld assailant has also spent a lot of time in this building, Bucci (sp?) and was know to use his credit card in shops across the street while on his lunch break.

Both CACI and The Carlyle Group maintain a current office at 2450 Crystal City next to each other which is the next building group over, and CACI has 15 other major office spaces they rent from Vornado all with 1500 feet of this building. CACI and Titian has also used THIS SPECIFIC address for interviewing of job applicants for interrogator positions during the initial push into Afghanistan, and used both the 2011 and the 2450 address to interview intelligence analysts, and interrogators, for support of a classified Army contract. When CACI used the building to interview job applicants it referred to the location as the "Crystal Plaza Two Office Building" and in other cases called it "2011 Crystal Drive". CACI and Jack London also used the 2011 and 2450 address when they sponsored a large number of civilian contractors from Israel when they came to the U.S. for R2I resistance to interrogation training, and put the students/contractors up at the Sheraton Hotel which is within walking distance of this building.

The legal mouthpiece at CACI made a strong point about denying that CACI does not have an entity at the addresses mentioned in the Stanton article, yet fails to point out that they have actually used the 2011 Crystal City address for recruiting, and that they have hundreds, and perhaps thousands of employees working mere feet from here as part of their torture for profit business model. Further, the attorney gets all twisted up about Stanton mentioning that the company is/was involved in assassination, and yet he fails to refute and sidesteps the statements made in the article about illegal torture and abuse allegations at various U.S. Military Prisons that were linked back to Jack London, CACI and Titan.

Recall that it was Jack London or CACI who hired Steptoe & Johnson to "investigate CACI" during the torture debacle at Abu Ghraib, and that the law firm seemed more interested in a public relations campaign than the actual pursuit of wrongdoers. As firm of Steptoe and Johnson failed to refute or mention the torture allegations in their threat letter to Stanton dated 5/23/2005 it is safe to assume that the torture allegations against CACI are completely true, and that Steptoe and Johnson know that they are true, but that they take exception to CACI being accused of actual assassination when a more correct description should read something like "selective revocation of birth certificate". The employees of the law firm of Steptoe and Johnson has a long history of harassment and filing of frivolous lawsuits, pleadings, and motions and they are likely just trying to terrorize John Stanton into silence, which given CACI's history of torture and human right abuses should be taken seriously. Senior partners at Steptoe and Johnson also has extremely close ties to the Bush administration, to Carlyle Group, CACI, Titan, and the defense industry. Steptoe has also represented members of the Saudi Royal Family on a long list of matters, and has quietly handled a host of matters for the bin Laden family since 9/11. The specific attorney at Steptoe who wrote the threat letter to the journalist has a history of representing clients and specializing in Racketeering and Corrupt Influence cases. Perhaps the President of CACI is touchy about possibly being brought up on RICO violations?

http://dc.internet.com/news/article.php/342551

http://www.paulsonandnace.com/r_articles13.html

The 2011 address is also used by GSA Advantage! who lists the address as One Crystal Park Bldg., RM 900, 2011 Crystal Drive, Arlington, VA 22202 with a phone number of (703) 872-3854, and special not should be made that they use a suite number of "Rm 900" and "Suite 920" when the "classified contract" company was listed as "Rm 911" all of which which are mere yards apart.

Here is a list of the 300 or so government contractors that just like URS. Titan, and CACI are within a close distance of this location, note the listing for Titan at 2611, Lockheed, Boeing, EG&G, JT3 and othersall in close proximity, many of whom share the same address, and many of whom, but not all have a close association with the events involving prison abuses and torture for profit overseas:

According to the Federal Procurement Data System (fpds.gov) database, the US DOD's US Special Operations Command (USSOCOM) has awarded just over 29,000 contracts since at least October of 2003. A review of 2,000 of those contracts shows that awards go to the usual suspects like SAIC, Lockheed Martin and Raytheon. Some go to unusual suspects like Colombia Tri-Star pictures and Time Warner for movie and video distribution services.

Within that batch of 2,000 contracts are approximately 50 mentions of a "classified domestic contractor" and a "classified foreign contractor" operating at 18th & F Street, NW, Washington, DC. Tallying up the numbers, it turns out that these two contractors have received approximately $100 million for contingency operations in amounts ranging from $17K to $25M (USD). The bulk of the money has been let to the classified domestic contractor (the foreign contractor is based in the United Kingdom). At least 296 actions (awards, transfer of funds) have taken place on the contract and there have been at least 17 modifications. The contract is consistently extended and will run to at least September of 2006.

According to fpds.gov, the effort operates under the guidelines established in 10 USC 101(a)(13). That section of the US Code states the following:

"(13) The term "contingency operation" means a military operation that- (A) is designated by the Secretary of Defense as an operation in which members of the armed forces are or may become involved in military actions, operations, or hostilities against an enemy of the United States or against an opposing military force; or (B) results in the call or order to, or retention on, active duty of members of the uniformed services under Section 688, 12301 (a), 12302, 12304, 12305, or 12406 of this title, chapter 15 of this title, or any other provision of law during a war or during a national emergency declared by the President or Congress."

The Defense Systems Information Agency, National Capitol Area (DISA-NCA) has also funded the effort under the ominous heading "other justice, public order, safety act".

The fpds.gov system provides the Dun & Bradstreet (D&B) number for the domestic contractor which is 790238638. Punching that into the D&B database returns this message: "contractor not disclosed, 2011 Crystal City, Suite 911, Arlington, Virginia. Plugging that information into google.com, it turns out that the former American Management Systems, Inc. (ams.com) was located in Suite 911. CGI (cgi.com), "the largest information services company in the world", bought AMS and retained the not-so interesting information services portion of AMS. CGI sold off the very interesting AMS defense and intelligence unit and its people, run by Gil Guarino, in 2004 for a hefty $1B (USD).

And the buyer? CACI International, the group that received unwelcome attention for its role in the torture scandals in Iraq that plague the company and the US government to this day. For its purchase of a piece of the "classified domestic contractor" CACI was awarded "the Hottest M&A Deal" by the Northern Virginia Technology Council in May 2004. According to investorideas.com, "The huge CACI-CG-AMS transaction involved thousands of employees and over $1 billion in cash. For CACI, it was the largest acquisition in the company's 42-year history. The transaction increased CACI's workforce by almost one quarter -- from some 7,600 employees to more than 9,400 -- brought in more than 300 new contracts, and raised revenue to $1 billion for the first time in the company's history."

Having reviewed just 50 or so entries for this contract (Dxxxxx04xxxxx), and ending up at a $100M USD value, one can only speculate on how many more of the "classified" awards are contained within the remaining 27,000 USSOCOM, DISA-NCA entries. Perhaps it runs into the hundreds of millions. And for what? Domestic operations? Interrogation and rendering? Homeland security? Intelligence gathering and assassination? It's all speculation since only Rumsfeld, Guarino and CACI's Jack London know for sure.

(If you want to learn more on the matter, go to fpds.gov and register--it's free. Use this information: Award ID=9700. IDV ID=9700. Contracting Office=H92236 and HC1047.)

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John Stanton is a Virginia Based writer specializing in political & national security matters. He is the author of America 2004: A Power But Not Super. Reach him at cioran123 [at] yahoo.com.

A mass movement and a mountain of disturbing evidence has been growing beneath the radar of U.S. media. The U.S. media (including alternative media) has done an extraordinarily superhuman job of "hearing" "seeing" and "speaking no evil." However, almost immediately after 9-11-2001's horrendous attacks on New York and Washington D.C., many researchers, ordinary citizens, and journalists [who've been given precious little print in U.S. papers or TV] began to smell something rotten . . . not in Denmark . . . but rather, right here in the good ol' US of A.

This movement's early roots began when many people scratched their heads in wonder at "how 4 commercial jet liners could fly hijacked for nearly an hour and a half the morning of 9-11, without any Air Force fighter interceptor jets turning a wheel until it was too late," as stated by acclaimed Canadian TV journalist, Barry Zwicker. Zwicker's powerful documentary "The Great Deception," which suggests top Bush Admin. officials were likely complicit in the 9-11 attacks, aired on Canada's Vision TV network which is viewed by millions of Canadians. Unfortunately Americans in the U.S. have been "protected" from viewing this critical documentary.

Researchers, like Zwicker and others, quickly learned that in 2001 before the 9-11 attacks 62 aircraft had been intercepted by Air Force fighter interceptor jets, and usually within 10 to 15 minutes of going off course.

[http://septembereleventh.org/airdefense.php] Yet bizarrely, on 9-11 four commercial jets were hijacked off course for about one and a half hours before the last one crashed into the most highly protected building in the world (the Pentagon). . . yet no interceptor jet intercepted it in all that time. Alarm bells went off with citizens across the U.S. and the world. A number of people including former NYPD detective, Frank Serpico (played by Al Pacino in the movie about his life as an NYPD whistleblower exposing corruption at the New York Police Department), began to express a suspicion of the "official 9-11 story" during a whistleblower awards ceremony nationally televised on C-SPAN.

Then other issues came to light regarding 9-11, and foreknowledge of the attacks. For example, a former Los Angeles Police Detective named Michael Ruppert noted that outrageously high volumes of insider trading on United and American Airlines stocks prior to 9-11, (reported on by CBS, Bloomberg and other financial papers) actually had some strange ties to the Central Intelligence Agency. 9/11-related insider trading was worldwide. It occurred on markets in Hong Kong, Tokyo, Chicago, New York, London and Berlin. Estimates of the total amount of insider trades have ranged from the hundred of millions (CBS), to the billions (Ernst Weltke – Chief of the Bundesbank), to the tens of billions (Andreas von Bülow, former German cabinet minister).

But some of the "put" options purchased on United and American airlines inside the US caught Ruppert's attention. "Put Options" are bets one can make AGAINST a stock, betting that it will fall.

As Ruppert quickly noted, in one known case, a large number of "put" options were placed through the Alex Brown or (AB Brown) Unit of Deutschebank. Ruppert recalled that AB Brown had been chaired until he became the Executive Director (No. 3) at the CIA in 1998, by A.B. "Buzzy" Krongard.

AB Brown and Deutschebank have a history of being connected with covert operations and money laundering. In fact had, they had just been investigated by Senator Levin's committee on Correspondent Banking and mentioned in Department of Justice investigations. So, it begs the question, if you were an Arab terrorist who wanted to cash in on your foreknowledge of the next days' attacks using United and American Airlines stock, would you go to a known CIA connected bank to do it? --especially, if you knew, as Ruppert had previously documented, that the CIA tracks all stock trades in real time? Probably not.

One $2.5 million trade, made through AB Brown by a late-comer went unclaimed after 9-11 when the markets were closed for four days. By that time alarms over the insider trades were sounding all over, even on CBS News. Most of the smarter crooks had absconded with their money by exercising their put options while the attacks were taking place through offshore accounts.

The head of AB Brown, Mayo Shattuck III, who is a close friend and associate of Krongard, resigned the day after 9-11-2001 without anyone except Ruppert connecting the dots. To this day the Bush Administration has not told us who made those insider trades or why the head of AB Brown resigned on 9-12-2001.

Other stories from foreign press began to be read by a growing number of Americans who realized quickly that they had to read foreign press to get to the ugly facts around 9-11. A conservative French newspaper, La Figaro, reported an incredible fact, that the CIA station chief in Dubai had met with Osama Bin Laden weeks before the 9-11 attacks as Osama was being treated at a U.S. Army hospital in Dubai. Yet, even though Osama was on the CIA most wanted list, the CIA station chief did not only NOT arrest him, but met with him and then reportedly went back to the U.S. for high level meetings in Washington following his meeting with Osama. Even more bizarrely alarming facts surfaced such as the article in a prominent Indian newspaper reporting that the hijacker mastermind of 9-11, Mohammed Atta, had been wired $100,000.00 by the head of Pakistani Intelligence weeks before 9-11, who oddly enough was in Washington meeting with top Bush Admin. officials ON 9-11-2001.

Although none of these bizarre facts raised any hairs in the U.S. media corps, a corps which had done such an "outstanding" job ferreting out the truth on the weapons of mass destruction issue before the ill fated war on Iraq, these facts WERE disturbing to many other Americans. Some Americans were able to see through the endless media fixation on celebrities and their endless foibles, and these vigilant Americans were looking deep, long and hard at the above facts and the more they saw the more alarming it became.

A movement began to build as people across America, who were seeing that the U.S. media's Orwellian ability to focus on celebrity gossip, and yet be blind, deaf, and dumb to the growing likelihood that people within our government had foreknowledge of the coming attacks . . . was just too much too bear. 9-11 Truth or 911 Visibility movement actions began to spring up across the nation. 9-11 researchers, and concerned citizens began to organize through sites like www.911visibility.org and www.911truth.org.

9-11 family members became increasingly alarmed and disgusted as the Bush Administration ordered the Senate not to investigate the 9-11 attacks, and then spent the next two years trying to block all 9-11 investigations. One widow, Ellen Mariani with her attorney, former Deputy Attorney General of Pennsylvania Phil Berg filed suit against the Bush Administration under the RICO Racketeering Act. Ellen charged Bush et al with foreknowledge of the coming attacks, willfully allowing them to occur for political gain, and engaging in a criminal obstruction of the 9-11 investigations. Other suits were filed by other 9-11 family members, including one represented by a former aid to Bob Dole filed in San Francisco court. These suits have been virtually ignored by U.S. media, and by much of U.S. "alternative" media.

In case you missed that previous email, here is the latest. I spoke on the phone today, with a congressman that is "on our side," and he told me that both speakers: of the House and of Senate had concurred that they would not revisit any more updates on the Schiavo case to enter next year's bills presented.

This congressman also told me that probably our best and last remedy would be to place this issue right in the ballot for Floridians to vote in the form of a Florida Constitutional amendment.

I will try to contact both Mr. Lee (President of the Senate) and Mr. Bense (President of the House) myself, to see if this is true and that they will actually refuse to entertain or allow any bills in the House or the Senate to enter in to create an amendment to the many laws that need amending, especially 765.404 and guardianship, as well as the misuse of patients rights that seals the records of criminal abuse over "patients rights." THERE ARE A LOT OF ISSUES THAT NEED TO BE REVISED and to hear these guys agree on not "revisiting" the Schiavo case, is not only IRRESPONSIBLE BUT COMPLICITIOUS!

I will keep you posted on my further research (interview) and findings.

mari

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Is The USA Addicted To War?

By: Evan Augustine Peterson III, J.D.

05/20/05 "ICH" - - Let us consider the possibility that the USA has become addicted, in an economic sense, to war. While the evidence offered below is by no means exhaustive, it is directly relevant and highly probative. Therefore, the reader should consider ALL of the evidence in Exhibits A through D before judging whether or not a prima facie case has been made that America is economically addicted to war.

(C) is growing so fast that it will equal the ROW combined "within 12months." [1]

Hence, the American military-industrial complex is poised to monopolize the global armaments industry. And yet the War Party's leaders and the Pentagon's brass deem these astronomical expenditures so inadequate that they're requesting considerably larger expenditures to sustain - or expand - their romanesque Pax Americana Imperium. [2]

Americans should be asking themselves WHY they're being advised that they cannot feel safe after they've made grossly disproportionate investments, by global standards, in what is by far the world's largest military? What do these exorbitantly expensive forces exist to do? Could it be that war's tangible rewards are so much greater for militarists than they are for the average citizen that the militarists are exaggerating the need for a "Global War On Terror" merely to justify their empire?

EXHIBIT B: The Far-Flung Global Empire Of American Militarism.

What's all that money buying, aside from endless overkill through the defense contractors' cornucopia of hi-tech weaponry? It's buying a far-flung empire of 1,700 bases upon which the sun never sets! Unbeknownst to most Americans, the Department of Defense ("DOD") currently lists 725 official US military bases outside of the country, and another 969 inside the 50 states (not to mention numerous secret bases).

According to UCSD Emeritus Professor of International Relations Chalmers Johnson, this vast military empire constitutes proof that the "Unites States prefers to deal with other nations through the use or the threat of force rather than through negotiations, commerce, or cultural interaction." [3] Dr. Johnson correctly concludes that American power has shifted from the people to the Pentagon with such dramatic finality that "a revolution would be required to bring the Pentagon back under democratic control."

Eight factors have caused this anti-democratic power shift: the culture of American ultranationalist militarism is deeply entrenched; the enormous military budget has been used for gross over investment in offensive - not defensive - war making capabilities under the pretext of "national security"; the worldwide archipelago of military bases is being misused to expand the neocolonialist Pax Americana Imperium; Byzantine layers of bureaucracy and secrecy inside the government-

military-industrial complex allow it to perpetrate illegalities and evade public scrutiny with impunity; the DOD commands a large private army of mercenaries to conduct secret black-ops actions that remain ethically and legally unaccountable; the DOD has successfully manipulated "national-security crises" as a pretext for centralizing the independent intelligence services under its propaganda-spewing control; the State Department's statesmen have been replaced by career soldiers, oil barons, and arms barons, who think the militarization of US foreign policy is desirable; the federal government's practically-nonexistent ethical code unwisely permits close ties between high-level politicians and arms-industry executives. [4]

EXHIBIT C: The Carlyle Group, The Bush Family, The War Party, And WorldLeaders.

For at least the last twelve years, George W. Bush and George H.W. Bush have been engaging in war-profiteering through the CARLYLE GROUP ("CG"). CG is a consortium of wealthy conservatives who operate worldwide as a merchant banking firm. CG is also a major player in the defense and telecommunications industries. CG has been averaging a whopping 34% return for its investors over the past 15 years, and its current estimated worth is $18 billion. Largely through war-profiteering, CG's worth soared from $12 billion to $18 billion between 2000 and 2005.

So who's involved in the Carlyle Group? Among many others: former President George H.W. Bush (CG's adviser from 1993 to October 2003, and current investor); Bush I Secretary of State James Baker (CG's $180 million partner); General Colin Powell before he was Bush II's SOS; Reagan Secretary of Defense Frank Carlucci (CG's chairman); Bush I National Security Adviser Brent Scowcroft; former conservative British Prime Minister John Major (head of CG's European operations); and the former right-wing presidents of the Philippines and South Korea.

In the typical revolving-door style that has made postmodern Washington an ethics-free zone, the Carlyle Group is managed and staffed by former Republican employees of the CIA, the State Department, and the DOD. The Saudi royal family also is - and the Bin Laden family recently was - a major investor in CG. Additionally, many prominent international bankers are CG investors.

But wait! What about George W. Bush? He was a director in the Carlyle Group's subsidiary, Caterair, before he managed the Texas Rangers baseball team. Then, as Governor of Texas, he induced the board of the Texas teachers' pension fund - the members of which he appointed - to invest $100 million in CG. Finally, GWB stands to inherit a multimillion dollar portion of whatever his father reaps through his consultations with, and investments in, CG. That might explain why GWB was so adamant both that his illegal elective war against Iraq MUST commence in March 2003, and that the estate tax MUST be repealed (which his party did in April 2005). Now when Poppy Bush dies, he can receive 100% of that blood-soaked windfall inheritance. [5]

EXHIBIT D: The War-Profiteering Leviathans Bechtel And Halliburton.

BECHTEL is a gargantuan multinational construction firm. The US-based Bechtel's war-profiteering activities are so prodigious that they're the stuff of legends. Knowledgeable defense experts have characterized Bechtel as "more powerful than the US Army." After 9/11, George Schultz, the Bechtel CEO and former Secretary of State, lobbied vigorously for the invasion of Iraq. The Bush administration rewarded Schultz by granting Bechtel exclusive no-bid, gold-plated contracts for the reconstruction of Iraq, then reducing Iraq's infrastructure to rubble during its "shock and awe" blitzkrieg.

These Iraq War contracts enabled Bechtel to reap record profits of $17 billion in 2003, and $17.4 billion in 2004. The firm was founded by the San Francisco-based Bechtel family, who are old friends with the Saudi-based Bin Laden family. These two families have worked together on many construction projects in the Mideast. Indeed, they're currently collaborating on a $20 billion deal with the Saudi government to excavate two new ports. Furthermore, the Bin Laden family owns a $10 million stake in Bechtel Corporation's investment subsidiary, The Fremont Group. Of course, the Bin Laden's are also old friends with the Bush family. It's a small world, after all. [6]

HALLIBURTON has vaulted to the forefront as the USA's premier - and most corrupt - war profiteer. Before revolving-door gamesman Dick Cheney became Bush II's running mate in 2000, he was receiving a multimillion dollar salary as Halliburton's CEO. Upon becoming Vice President Cheney, he oversold the invasion of Iraq by falsely alleging that an imminent threat was posed by Iraq's nonexistent WMD arsenal. Since the invasion, his cronies at Halliburton have reaped profits of at least $18 billion from their Iraq War contracts. And Halliburton's revenues increased by 80% between 2003 and 2004.

Meanwhile, Halliburton was perpetrating countless acts of fraud, stealing multimillions through over billing, and taking millions in kickbacks to its executives. For instance, the Defense Contract Audit Agency recently concluded that Halliburton over billed US taxpayers by $212.3 million for fuel transportation in Iraq. And Halliburton is currently under investigation by both the FBI and the Securities Exchange Commission for numerous illegalities. Nevertheless, Halliburton and its subsidiary KBR continue to receive lucrative no-bid, gold-plated defense contracts from the Pentagon.

Noting this blatant cronyism, CorpWatch disgustedly concludes that "Halliburton's agenda is so merged with that of the Bush administration that questions raised by auditors, inspectors-general, and other independent agencies - not to mention corporate accountability groups - languish silently in Congress andthe White House." [7]

Furthermore, these same major defense contractors - the Carlyle Group, Bechtel, Halliburton, and their subsidiaries - donated millions to the Republican Party and the Bush-Cheney campaign. Additionally, they paid for extravagant parties at the 2004 political conventions and the 2005 presidential inauguration. In short, war is a lucrative business that pays the elite war-profiteers and the Washington bribe-ocrats handsomely, while it impoverishes the taxpayers, drains the federal coffers, decimates the target nations, and kills the combatants and their innocent victims hideously.

Philadelphia lawyer Phil Berg has never tried to climb Mt. Everest. In the past, he’s always attempted “legal mountains” within his reach. But since filing a 2004 federal RICO lawsuit against President Bush and others for complicity in 9-11, the Pennsylvania attorney finally knows what it’s like to try to scale the world’s tallest peak.

“I thought it was going to be tough, but I didn’t think this tough,” Berg told AFP from behind a mountain of legal paperwork in his one-man Philadelphia office. “I am undermanned, overworked and under-financed, but still optimistic that justice will prevail.

“Either our government made 9-11 happen or let it happen. I am going after them for foreknowledge, failure to warn and actively covering up the crimes they committed.

Remember, Nixon was thrown out of office only for a coverup. These people, including Bush, have done much more,” said Berg in an exclusive interview.

“We need to bring these criminals in government to justice for killing over 3,000 Americans [and] the thousands who have needlessly died in Iraq and Afghanistan.”

Without much support or media attention at home, Berg has left on a seven-stop European tour to try and raise money and awareness about the U.S. government’s involvement in 9-11. The speaking tour begins in Amsterdam then continues to Berlin, Paris, Madrid, London and Vienna.

Berg is joining American entrepreneur Jimmy Walter, the tour’s sponsor, who has taken up residence overseas after spending millions here to alert the public about the truth behind 9-11. Berg and Walter together hope to combine efforts to raise needed money for the 9-11 lawsuit, as well as showing Europeans that many Americans disagree with

Bush and his imperialistic foreign policy agenda. AFP correspondent Christopher Bollyn is also traveling with them. Although millions of Americans now agree with Berg about the U.S. government’s complicity in 9-11, Berg said the movement hasn’t gained momentum because the mainstream media together with the government has hidden the truth from the American people.

“Hopefully the foreign press will be more receptive to our cause, and the word will get back home,” said Berg, who claims the American media has purposely ignored his lawsuit against Bush in order to protect the administration against any type of public backlash.

“This is a major lawsuit with worldwide implications, but the media has chosen to ignore it. Why?” asked Berg, saying the lack of public attention has not damped his efforts at getting at the truth behind 9-11.

And the extensive 237-page complaint, filed in November 2004 on behalf of WTC maintenance worker William Rodriguez, attempts to get at the truth while unraveling the complicated fact-scenario involving the government’s hand in 9-11 before, during and after the attacks.

Although Rodriguez doesn’t claim to know everything about the government’s complicity, he is going to testify that he heard strange explosions before and after the jetliner struck one of the towers.

Rodriguez, working at the WTC on the morning of 9-11, claims to have heard detonated bomb explosions. Besides the timing of the suspicious bomb blasts, Rodriguez claims they occurred on lower floors of the high-rise.

Independent investigators said both towers suspiciously fell “like a house of cards,” claiming that Rodriguez probably heard pre-arranged detonated bomb blasts, strategically placed and timed to make it appear that the jetliner was the cause of the collapse.

From the beginning, the government has always held firm to the story that burning jet fuel after impact brought down the towers. However, critics claim the government’s theory is impossible since much more was needed in order to bring the towers down so quickly. They claim it is more likely that explosive devices were placed in the towers and detonated when the jetliners made impact.

Besides trying to disprove the government’s theory behind the WTC collapse, Berg’s suit goes much further, attempting to prove that a 9-11 conspiracy began years before the incident.

“The beauty behind a RICO case is that we are allowed to use as admissible evidence facts and events that occurred many years before and even years after 9-11,” said Berg about his choice to use the federal RICO laws against Bush and his cronies. “The government normally uses RICO for Mafia probes, but in this case it’s a conspiracy within the government itself that the RICO laws can help expose.”

After filing the case, government lawyers were quick to go on the offensive, filing a motion to dismiss on grounds of national security, among a number of other legal maneuvers in order that the case never see the light of day.

“They have tried everything to stop this case from being heard,” added Berg.

The case now is still in the early stages with full-blown discovery and depositions not yet taking place. However, Berg said he “can’t wait to depose” Bush and other higherups regarding the tough questions about 9-11 never asked or answered previously.

“I just got word the judge didn’t dismiss the case, but has changed venue to New York,” said Berg, who finally received notice from the court regarding the hearing to dismiss the case held several weeks ago in Philadelphia.

Asked what motivated him to take on such an enormous challenge, he said:“I never realized I would get this involved, but the more research I did, the more it became clear that Bush and his cronies knew about 9-11, then actively covered up their participation and foreknowledge.

“Right after 9-11 occurred, I knew something was strange when I saw [Chief of Staff] Andy Card tell Bush about the second plane hitting the towers. There was absolutely no reaction on the president’s face, and it was then I understood he must have known about the plan all along.”

In order to raise money at home for the lawsuit and raise public awareness, Berg operates a web site at 911forthetruth.com, a site where a transcript of the entire RICO complaint can be found as well as updating viewers aboutthe latest news about the 9-11 truth movement.

Skull and Bones / Bolshevik Revolution, etc.It's All in the FamilySkull and Bones Fostered Russian Communism

Criminal connections to the Financial Fraternity that paid for the creation of Communism, the United Nations and Nazism are explored in this G. Richard Arnold article. It starts with a sharp critique of Marine Captain Daniel Sullivan's article which appeared in Proceedings, the journal of the U.S. Naval Institute. Marine Captain Daniel Sullivan exalts Council on Foreign Relation's "traitor" George F. Kennan to "American hero" status in his U.S. Navy propaganda article which appeared last Fall.. A true history of this vicious villain would show that George F. Kennan should have been tried and convicted of "high treason."

By G. Richard Arnold

George F. Kennan's whole career was that of undermining America's National Security ... in favor of a New World Order run by the Council on Foreign Relations crowd and The Skull & Bones.

The paralysis and neutralization of our Armed Forces "was sold" by Kennan and his "conspirators" as "containment" and "co-existence."

The whole of Kennan's life should be questioned! Kennan should have been put on trial for "high treason" for his participation in brutal Communism's "success" during most of the last century. George Kennan was relentless in his protection, "aid, comfort and support" of those criminals who created and feed the Communist Killing Machine.

Kennan, like Henry Kissinger have continually propagandized for "containment" and "co-existence" with the killers in the Kremlin. He has pleaded not to offend the Soviets, and to support Yugoslavia Communist Tito, he testified before the United States Senate to "back off" the Soviet Cong etc. etc. Kennan opposed "Victory" both in Korea and Viet Nam and served the Wall Street Hitlers who wanted to disarm America. .

Comrade Kennan supported the Fulbright Memorandum to "muzzle the Military." The U.S. military was not allowed to describe Communism as "treacherous" or "vicious" or warn of the menace of "Soviet infiltration." He warned them to never speak of "victory."

Kennan (CFR) and his brethren were constantly afraid that Americans might discover that Communism is a creation of the Faustian Financial Fraternities like the Skull & Bones and their Commu-Fascist friends. "Communism" is their "Rosemary's baby". The Communists have remained on Western life supports since the beginning of the last Century. It is in fact, a killing machine used by the Skull and Bones elite to advance World Government through the United Nations.

The purpose in the creation of Communism was to establish a world government on the ashes of American sovereignty. Their master plan was:

One: to propagandize, force and cull people under its control into accepting the idea of world government; Two: to destroy Nations (nation-states) and develop regional apparatuses to replace Sovereign Nations; Three: to "frighten" ... and "scare" peoples in the West into surrendering their nation's sovereignty to the UN. (Their Manufactured Monster was Communism.) Four: to eliminate or radically reduce the influence of the middle class.

CFR logo/ Skull & Bones (Brotherhood of Death emblem)

George Kennan wrote the authorized biography of E. H. Harriman of (railroad fortune fame). E.H. Harriman became a member of Skull& Bones of which only 15 Yale Seniors are inducted per year. They lay nude in a coffin during the ceremony and are born again into the Brotherhood of Death. Their occult rituals include the use of human remains. Portions of their satanic rituals are identical to those described in John Robison's book published in 1798 called Proofs of a Conspiracy. Robison was a Professor of Natural Philosophy at Edinburgh University. Abbe Barruel's four volume study done in France in 1799 revealed like information ... These books exposed the Illuminati an organization warned about by George Washington. Their goal was to overthrow of all governments and religions and to Run the World through their wisemen The Illuminati Elite.

The destruction of Russia and the creation of the Communist Soviet Union was a special project of the American Illuminati. This was an important first step on their road to killing nations and paving the way for their New World Order.

The co-founder of Skull & Bones, Alphonso Taft became Secretary of War, Attorney General and as the U.S. Ambassador to Russia in the mid eighteen-eighties. Russia was targeted for major brutality via a Communist Revolution.

The headquarters for the operation to make Russia Communist was located at 120 Broadway in downtown New York. It was the address of E.H. Harriman. George Kennan was the hired hack of H.E. Harriman and the Wall Street Hitlers.

Headquarters to install Communism in RussiaFirst American Communist 120 Broadway, New YorkTombstone of John Reed Paid through Whitney (Skull & Bones)

John Reed (Executive of the Communist Third International) received money from NY Metropolitan magazine which was owned by Eugene Boissevain, a private New York banker employed by Harry Payne Whitney (Skull & Bones). The dots are there ... you need only connect them to get the Big Picture.Reed traveled with Lincoln Steffens to Russia. Steffens wrote the forward to Trotsky's The Bolsheviks and World Peace in 1918. Steffens wrote ... "Lenin is not only the greatest revolutionary, he is the greatest liberal."

A year later, in 1919, Steffens traveled to Soviet Union with William C. Bullitt (who became a member of the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). Bullitt married Communist John Reed's wife. And eventually became the American Ambassador to the Soviet Union. Connect the dots folks.

George Kennan, the Chief Soviet apologist, represented the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) took his tour to the Soviet Union with William Bullitt (CFR) in 1933. That when Joseph Stalin was murdering millions. Its not like they didn't know of the carnage. The blood ran in the streets like water after a rain storm.

Pardon some repetition but it is important ... You must connect the dots to understand the diagram.

Alphonso Taft the co-founder of the American Chapter of Skull and Bones became ambassador to Russia. Their plan was to set up Russia for a fall. The goal was to create the first Communist country. And they did!

During the critical revolution in 1919 other members of the Amerrican Chapter of Skull and Bones did everything they could to impose the yolk of Communism on the Russia people.

Here is how "Skull & Bones" aided the establishment of Communism.

1) Amos Pinchot (Skull & Bones) a founder of the American Civil Liberties Union ... and William Kent (Skull & Bones) of the U.S. Tariff Commission lobbied congressmen for favorable trade with the communist killers who were struggling to secure their power from the people.

2) Thomas D. Thacher (Skull&Bones) law partner at 120 Broadway of Simpson, Thacher & Bartlett) wrote a memorandum that ... encouraged recognition of the Reds, Thacher insisted that American military assistance be used to keep the Japanese out of Siberia, ... give moral support and favorable trade for the newly entrenched Communists. ... Thatcher's reward was the induction of his son Thomas Day Thacher into the (Skull & Bones). His son worked for Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson (Skull & Bones)] Who later headed up the "postwar committee" BEFORE World War II.

3) The chairman of the American-Russian Chamber of Commerce was Samuel R. Bertron (Skull & Bones) Samuel was also Vice President of Guaranty Trust at 140 Broadway. Samuel had gone on the Elihu Root (1917) Mission to Russia to aid the ruthless Red revolution.

Elihu Root's law firm included a staff of Skull& Bones operatives like Whitney, Stimson, Mc George Bundy & William Bundy pictured above

5) Harold Stanley (Skull& Bones) was vice president and president of Guaranty Trust from 1915 to 1928, Percy Rockefeller (Skull & Bones) was a director of Guaranty Trust during this same time. As was W. Averell Harriman (Skull & Bones) son of E.H. Harriman (Skull & Bones) George F. Kennan's mentor.

Are you starting to get the picture? Bush and these boys are from the same club - the Skull & Bones!

6) The vice president of Guaranty Trust, Max May, became the First vice president the Communist Soviet RUSKOMBANK.

7) The representative of the new Communist Killing Machine at the Soviet Bureau was Ludwig C.A.K. Martens who was Vice President of Weinberg & Posner Engineering 120 Broadway.

8) The Red Cross Mission to Russia was a reconnaissance cover for the conspiracy to overthrow the Czar and his family by the American Illuminati (Skull& Bones). The "Mission" was the preparation for the murder of the Czar and his family and the tens of millions of patriotic Russians who followed them to the grave.

9) George Kennan was well aware that "this mission" was an act of war by his fanatical friends at 120 Broadway, NY. In his book ... Russia Leaves the War ... Kennan quotes Cornelius Kelleher (Asst. to Wm Boyce Thompson) ... "Poor Mr. Billings believed he was in charge of a scientific mission for the relief of Russia ... He was reality nothing but a mask - the Red Cross complexion of the mission was nothing but a mask." Kennan was right ... the Red Cross was a con.

2nd in command Red Cross Mission. Raymond Robins "I am the servant of William Boyce Thompson ... let us assume I'm here to capture Russia for Wall street ..." The Decision to Intervene: Soviet-American Relations pp190,235Let us repeat "I'm here to capture Russia for Wall Street" This key point is the Rosetta Stone of understanding. It is summed up as Anthony J. Hilder puts it "Communism is not the creation of the masses to overthrow the Banking establishment ... It is a creation of the banking establishment to overthrow and enslave the masses. Communism is not run from Moscow, Beijing or Havana. It is run from London, New York and Washington D. C. "

10) The funding of the conspiracy came through the American National Headquarters of the Red Cross in Washington D.C. under Miss Mabel Boardman. Her father was the only one outside of NY to give over $10,000 to prepare for the overthrow. The NY chairman, for fund raising, H. P. Davison. was rewarded by having his son, H. P. Davison Jr. inducted into the Skull & Bones in 1920.

11) H.P. Davison Sr. had brought Thomas Lamont into the Morgan firm. Lamont funded the American Communist Party which acted as the espionage wing of the Soviet Union. See recently published Venona papers. E. H. Harriman, Russell Sage and J.P. Morgan also heavily funded the Red Cross's participation in the overthrow that would end in the mass murder of millions.

12) Sometime later the U.S. Congress called Thomas Lamont's son Corliss Lamont... "probably the most persistent propagandist for the Soviet Union to be found anywhere in the United States." Lamont was also a director of the American Civil Liberties Union and a member of the American Association for the United Nations. The Communist goals dovetail perfectly, (as planned), with the Council on Foreign Relations goal of a World Government.

The dream of a "New World Order" wasn't first envisioned by Adolph Hitler, Joe Stalin or George Bush. It was first dreamt of by an elite group of "wisemen " or Illuminati. The world Illuminati religiously worship Lucifer, "bearer of the light". President Bush in his speech addressed to the nation talked about a "thousand points of lights" (a millennium under Lucifer) as Hitler once dreamed of a "thousand year Reich".

George F. Kennan ... has provided cover and concealment for this conspiracy.Kennan lied about the use of American troops being used to keep the Japanese out of Siberia in order to protect the Communists while they were consolidating their power. Kennan did not oppose W. Averell Harriman (Skull & Bones) creation of the RUSKOBANK, nor saving Lenin's oil production. (See Pravda September 21 1922) (Int'l Barnsdall Corp) owned by Guaranty Trust ... 140 Broadway [ V.P. Eugene Stetson son Eugene W. Stetson Jr. (Skull & Bones) ] & Lee Higgison Co was owned by W. A. Harriman and Frederick Winthrop Allen both were (Skull&Bones). They established the Georgian Manganese Co.

I have little doubt that the U.S. Marine Captain Sullivan would paint General George Marshall a hero if the opportunity presented itself. George C. Marshall deliberately sacrificed the Armed Forces at Pearl Harbor to "Kick-off the war." (Which resulted in the murder of 50,000,000 people) This was so the Skull & Bones and friends could offer the UNITED NATIONS as "the last hope for peace" at the conclusion of the catastrophe The framework for their New World Order was set in place in 1945 with Alger Hiss as the U.N.'s first Secretary General.

During Lend Lease W. Averell Harriman (Skull & Bones) was in charge ... Harriman opened the flood gates to increase of heavy armaments and needed food to the Communist butchers. Harriman admitted that ..."two thirds of all the large enterprises in the Soviet Union had been built with U.S. help or technical assistance." U.S. State Dept File 033.1161 Communism of the 1900's was a special project of the American Illuminati (Skull & Bones).

Harriman (Skull & Bones) with his vassal Joseph Stalin. The Communist killers were to drive Europe into a "European Union" as the precursor to the New World Order. In 1870' one writer aptly called the Skull & Bones " THE BROTHERHOOD OF DEATH". America's Secret Establishment p23

At the conclusion of World War II both Germany and Japanese were thoroughly defeated. But the Communists were financially and politically sustained by the Skull & Bones brotherhood. The Communists were a necessary evil to frighten Europe into accepting NATO as the first step toward their creation of the European Union and World Government. The Illuminati Skull & Bones used Kennan (CFR) ... to get America's Armed Forces to pull its punches and accept its enemies as Allies.

Whence forth, came the pro-Soviet stratagem called containment and co-existence. Generals like George Patton who wanted to win had to be eliminated. The Marshall Plan was to weld a deliberately broken Europe into the United States of Europe. The "Illuminati wisemen" constructed a major portion of their coming New World Order by regional agreements under the UN.treaties.

We all know the first acting head of the UN was Communist spy Alger Hiss (CFR) and Hiss hired more than forty CFR conspiratorsto complete the creation of their U.N. Charter for global Government. The CIA George Herbert Walker Bush (Skull & Bones) reverently refers to the Communist founder and his CFR cohorts as visionaries. It was William Bundy (CFR) (Skull& Bones) who coughed up the money for Alger Hiss's defense. Bundy ran the CFR's magazine Foreign Affairs and headed the Ford foundation whose purpose was to "so alter the U.S. that we would merge with the Soviet Union."

In line with George Kennan's containment policy ... George Kennan states according to The Biographical Dictionary of the Left ... "often I have had more respect for them (the Communists) than for pillars of American society ...."

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May 24, 2005 in Current Affairs Permalink Comments (0) TrackBack

May 24th Protest in Sacramento

From Californians Against Assisted Suicide.Please CirculateAsm Lloyd Levine - Author of AB 654 Doctor Assisted Suicideis holding a $1000 per ticket fundraiser (the day before it is voted on in the Assembly Appropriation Committee)Show up and make your voice heard. Tell his big money donors they are supporting Levine's Assisted Suicide bill. Put them on notice!When: Tuesday, May 24th at 5:30pmWhere: The Sterling Hotel, 1300 H. Street in SacramentoSuggested Protest Signs:Assisted Suicide Isn't HealthcareDon't Kill With PillsNo On AB 654Recall LevineKill AB 654, Not PeopleSuicide is Not the Answer(Please pass along this message and take action)KAREN"When the argument is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser"Socrates

May 23, 2005 in Current Affairs Permalink Comments (0) TrackBack

The English Patient / Wesley J. SmithThe English PatientFrom the May 30, 2005 issue: Leslie Burke wants to live; the National Health Service has a second opinion.by Wesley J. Smith05/30/2005, Volume 010, Issue 35 London THE MOST IMPORTANT BIOETHICS LITIGATION in the world today involves a 45-year-old Englishman, Leslie Burke. He isn't asking for very much. Burke has a progressive neurological disease that may one day deprive him of the ability to swallow. If that happens, Burke wants to receive food and water through a tube. Knowing that Britain's National Health Service (NHS) rations care, Burke sued to ensure that he will not be forced to endure death by dehydration against his wishes.Burke's lawsuit is even more important to the future of medical ethics than was the Terri Schiavo case. Schiavo was dehydrated to death--a bitter and profound injustice--because Judge George W. Greer ruled both that Terri was in a persistent vegetative state and (based on statements she allegedly made during casual conversations some 20 years ago) that she would not want to live under such circumstances. In other words, Terri Schiavo lost her life in order to safeguard her personal autonomy, though she never made the actual decision to die.

But Burke, who is fully competent, worries that his wishes will be ignored precisely because he wants food and water even if he becomes totally paralyzed. Receiving food and water when it is wanted certainly seems the least each of us should be able to expect. But, it turns out, whether Burke lives or dies by dehydration may not be up to him. According to National Health Service treatment guidelines, doctors, rather than patients or their families, have the final say about providing or withholding care.

Burke won his case at the trial court level when a judge ruled that denying the tube-supplied food and water a patient wants "would be a breach of claimant's rights under . . . the European Convention on Human Rights." This should be uncontroversial. But the General Medical Council, the medical licensing authority, appealed, joined by the British government.

Why do Britain's medical establishment and government insist that Burke be denied a right to decide whether he receives tube-supplied food and water? It all boils down to two concepts that are increasingly intertwined in modern bioethics theory and practice. First is the so-called quality-of-life ethic that presumes to judge the worth of patients' lives according to their mental and physical capacities. Under this view, doctors or bioethicists may judge a life to be of such low quality that it is not worth extending, irrespective of the patient's wishes. The second issue is money--an especially potent factor for England's increasingly strained socialized medical system.

Accordingly, the secretary of state for health argued before the Court of Appeal that while patients have the right to refuse life-sustaining treatment, they don't have a corresponding right to receive it. Even though the Burke case does not involve high tech medical procedures--he is not asking for a respirator or kidney dialysis, after all--the government claims that the trial court's ruling undermines the authority of doctors to make the "clinical judgment" about whether a patient's "treatment would be of benefit," based at least in part on the question of "the resources which are available." The right of doctors to exercise such control is "absolutely fundamental to the day-to-day functioning of the NHS."

In support of the government's position, the secretary of state filed a statement by Elizabeth Woodeson, the head of scientific development and bioethics at the Department of Health. Her testimony demonstrates the threat that contemporary bioethics poses to the lives of vulnerable patients. As Woodeson explained, the National Health Service established the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (given the creepily inappropriate acronym NICE) to issue "clinical guidelines" that blend efficacy of outcomes, quality of life judgments, and economics

An assessment is made of the cost of the treatment per additional year of life which it brings, and per quality adjusted life year (QALY) . . . which takes into consideration the quality of life of the patient during any additional time for which their life will be prolonged. The clinical and cost effectiveness of the treatment under review is then used as the basis for a recommendation as to whether or not . . . the treatment should be provided in the NHS. . . . The Secretary of State believes that . . . clinicians should be able to follow NICE guidelines without being obliged to accede to patient demands. . . . If that principle were undermined, there would be considerable risk of inefficient use of NHS resources.

In other words, medical care is effectively rationed by the National Health Service under guidelines set by bioethicists based on their beliefs about the low quality of life of patients whom they have never met. While the views of patients and families are to be taken into account when deciding whether to provide treatment, they are not determinative.

This top-down approach is what Leslie Burke is rebelling against. He knows that many bioethicists have a low opinion of the quality of life of people with profound disabilities. Burke doesn't trust doctors, much less bioethicists, to judge whether his life is worth living. "I feel strongly that my body and my being are mine," Burke insisted when I visited him recently at his Lancaster home. "But my desire [to live] can be overridden" based on prejudice against the disabled. "I am no different than anybody else, but I am not seen that way anymore."

Adding heft to Burke's concerns: When I privately discussed his case with a prominent British physician who I expected would sympathize with Burke's views, I was taken aback when he told me crossly, "Burke is only thinking of himself rather than looking at the bigger picture." How thoughtless of him.

IT WOULD BE A MISTAKE to assume that Americans are safe from having life-sustaining treatment rationed like this just because we don't have a national health service. Burke is fighting a broader movement in the bioethics field, "Futile Care Theory," that is also gaining traction here. Futile care theory is a one-way street when it comes to patient autonomy and end-of-life care. Futilitarians assert that patients have an absolute right to refuse life-sustaining treatment but are not similarly entitled to insist that their lives be maintained. Indeed, under futile care theory, as under the NHS rationing approach, whether a seriously ill or disabled patient's request to be kept alive is granted depends on whether doctors and bioethicists see the patient's life as worth living and spending medical resources to sustain.

For the last several years American hospitals have been quietly promulgating futile care protocols that empower their ethics committees to authorize doctors to unilaterally refuse wanted care. These futile care policies are beginning to be imposed on unwilling patients and their families.

As is usually the case in such matters, the first victims are on the far margins. Thus, in Houston, Sun Hudson, a 5-month-old infant born with a terminal disability, was taken off a ventilator in March over his mother's objections based on a Texas law that defers to futile care theory. Under the law, once a hospital bioethics committee determines that the treatment should not be rendered, the patient or family has a mere 10 days to transfer the patient's care to another hospital. This can prove difficult in this era of managed care and HMOs, since the affected patients are usually the most expensive to treat. After 10 days without a transfer, the outcome is usually death following the unilateral withdrawal of treatment--as occurred in Sun Hudson's case.

In another Houston case, one with ironic echoes of Terri Schiavo, the wife of Spiro Nikolouzos wants tube-feeding for her persistently unconscious husband, based on his previously stated desire to live. But unlike Schiavo's, Nikolouzos's personal wishes are not deemed determinative: A hospital ethics committee voted to refuse to continue his tube-supplied food and water and ventilator support. He would have died, but a San Antonio hospital unexpectedly agreed to provide the care. Then its ethics committee also decided to cut off care, but Nikolouzos was transferred to a nursing home. For the moment, Nikolouzos is being allowed to stay alive. But the final decision about the matter isn't his wife's: Under futilitarian Texas law, it belongs to committees of bioethicists and doctors.

In this darkening atmosphere, the Leslie Burke case could not be more important. If Burke loses on appeal, patients in Britain will be stripped of the basic human right to receive food and water through a feeding tube. Such a ruling should send a cold shiver through disabled, elderly, and dying patients everywhere.

Moreover, given the increasing propensity of some Supreme Court justices to look overseas when deciding issues of American law, a Burke loss could plausibly end up reinforcing futile care laws in this country. There will undoubtedly be protracted litigation on this issue in coming years. How Leslie Burke fares may determine whether futile care theory is allowed to metamorphose from ad hoc health care rationing into an explicit--and expanding--duty to die.

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Wesley J. Smith, a senior fellow at the Discovery Institute and an attorney and consultant for the International Task Force on Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide, is the author, most recently, of Consumer's Guide to a Brave New World.

May 23, 2005 in Current Affairs Permalink Comments (0) TrackBack

May 21st Protest ResultsWe had a well attended protest Saturday at 4:00 pm est at the intersection of 66th St. N. and 102nd Ave. N. There were more waves, thumbs up and honks for justice than that other American symbol we are all too familiar with, especially in traffic.

Our protest crossed all demographic lines. When I get photos, I'll put them here. FV

Saturday, a guy in your area, talked with me on Yaoo Messenger, and he was able to explain a little information. So, I do you I also can establish voice communication with you and others via yahoo Messenger. We don't have to rack up long-distance phone bills.All we have to do is get you people's computers setup with mics into your soundcards. In the Help menu of the Yahoo Messenger, there is an audio wizard. Just make sure your mic and either speakers or headphones are plugged into the right jack, and follow the audio wizard through step by step to configure your soundcard and mic.I'm glad that for a first demonstration, that at least approximately 50 people turned up. I really hope that this will roll into a monumental tidal wave of nationwide demonstrations. It's high time that the government stops suckin' up to terrorists who wield the biggest bank accounts and stock portfolios. As I published on my site one time, "democracy" is supposed to be the rule of "the common people"--not a bunch of political party thugs with big-bucks!"The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines democracy as: "1 a : government by the people; especially : rule of the majority". "4 : the common people especially when constituting the source of political authority".http://groups.msn.com/IronsidesWorldHeadquarters/wartobuilddemocracyandendterrorism.msnwPlease send the link to your website. Thankyou!Ironsides:mobile: 514-585-6265email: ironsides@videotron.cahttp://groups.msn.com/IronsidesWorldHeadquarters-----Original Message-----From: Fernandezmari07@aol.com [mailto:Fernandezmari07@aol.com]Sent: Monday, May 23, 2005 2:02 AMTo: ironsides@videotron.caSubject: (no subject)

Hi There,Our protest, I believe was a total success. It was planned at the very last minutes with barely one week to pass the word around.We had about 38 protesters at different times. 16 at one time and another few came at a later time.We took plenty of pictures that will be able to send copies of and also post on our website.I will try contacting you at my earliest convenience.Sincerelymari813-610-2842

May 23, 2005 in Current Affairs Permalink Comments (0) TrackBack

I Will Not SpareCommination & Valediction

My friends, a word allow me: Many moons ago I spoke thus, saying I accept all things, that the final conclusion is that there is no conclusion, that reality is your only truth and that he who be-lives his truth can create a reality, that the impact of flesh is all consciousness, that pleasure has no fear, that life and death are the same realities (today is yesterday's rebirth and death the great pregnancy for tomorrow's life), that no man knoweth anything, for there is no 'absolute collective'. This is the beginning of Wisdom for your Inceptor knows all life. To become your reality is also the means of the Ideal. Know this also: Who knew not before he knows - has less when he knows. Enough - is too much! Let me reiterate:

"I believe in the flesh 'as now' and forever... for I am the light, the truth, the law, the way, and none shall come unto anything except through the impact of flesh on reality!

Did I not show you the eclectic path between ecstasies, that precarious funambulatory way? - But you had no spunk, were tired and feared... awake I say! Dehypnotize yourselves from the rotten idioms you be-live and be-lie. For the great Noontide is here, the great bell has struck... let others await involuntary immolation, the forced redemption so certain for those coprophagists. Now, this day I ask you to search your memories, for consciousness is impact, a nostalgia from a previous experience - is desire and consummation, is life, i.e., consciousness. The Inceptor of all memories is your Soul. Again remember! Life is desire, death its rebuilding. Life is eternal and there is sleep."

That I should have loved you! I, the Pan-Enanthroposist, a Narcissus who thought you a looking-glass; that you were my brothers! But when I look at you I see such a vast endemonism of myself, a substantiated stench, a visual presentation of emotional ugliness and no vestige of the humane - I am amazed and non-plussed, for there is so much I would destroy... too much to reconcile. Ideals seem remote and become imperative. Your Ids have triumphed!

So let me pass on. There can be no following, for except through some phenomenal debacle I see no reformation or recomposition. Such a dramatic change would need a magic that could instantly change the very protozoa into men: then, having such magic, neither would I waste nor abuse the powers. Time must change you: you have no worth except destructively; the mind has tired of you. You were given great potentialities towards pleasure and virtue! You have squandered all in your greed and inexhaustible vandalism - now the world is almost a bloody muck-heap. So farewell my brothers, keep hating your-selves. I make path towards the beasts... until I make form of death.

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